If you’re bored by the pablum that passes for conversation on sports broadcasts — if, like me, you’re long past fed up with all the cliches and predictable jock jocularity — I urge you to watch (if you haven’t already done so) Reggie Jackson’s soul-baring soliloquy. It was a breath of fresh air to hear […]

Thank God Willis Haviland Carrier invented air conditioning — for the most part. Before air conditioning, the heat drove us outside and brought us together. Friends sought the shade of trees or a refreshing dip in a lake or river. On the hottest nights, whole families brought their blankets and pillows to riverbanks, where it […]

They say when Albert Schweitzer was in Africa and ants would make a path toward a morsel of food he’d accidentally left on his table, he’d move the morsel to redirect, rather than kill the insects. All right Albert! My hero! I too believe in sparing all life — well, except those lives determined to […]