I have long felt that working in the hospital on Christmas day is as close to a spiritual experience as I can get. This is not because I have any specific religious training. I do not. It is because so many others have been steeped in Christian theology that the hospital is suffused with an […]
Every time someone asks if Sam has retired, I reply, “No, not exactly.” And then I hasten to add that I am “not retired,” that I am still running Voxie Media, my book coaching, writing and publishing business. And that Sam and I are both writers. But that’s kind of a mouthful to get out. What […]
Debbie asked me to comment on my part in our decision to sell our house in D.C. in light of a recent article in the New York Times: Selling the Family Home is Liberating for Many Retirees. I would prefer to write about the Oxford comma. But that will have to wait for another day. […]
After a lovely Thanksgiving on the coast of Connecticut, we have taken a fortnight to settle into a new apartment on the cusp of Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill. What a strange and complicated world we inhabit. How do the social mores of various urban centers evolve to become so eccentrically different? And how is it […]
