Back when my kids were little and I was always schlepping them hither and yon, they’d squabble in the back seat at ever-increasing decibels until I would inevitably unleash my most fervent Dad-ism: “I don’t care who started it, just knock it off!” Well, Dad is even more pissed these days at the House and […]

“What’d you do, go to Bowdoin or something?” Those are the first words I heard from the woman with whom I recently celebrated 32 years of marriage. At the time, I was coaching a Little League baseball team in Cockeysille Maryland, and my two sons and Tina’s older son were on the team. I was […]

The autumn leaves are expected to be extra vibrant this year in Pennsylvania, though they are changing colors a week later than is normal. That’s fitting. Very few things are “normal” this year. According to Merriam-Webster, “autumn” is “the season between summer and winter comprising in the northern hemisphere usually the months of September, October, […]

It was about midnight when the lights went out in Brussels. It happened during a 1965 meeting of the foreign ministers of the six member countries of the European Community, the forerunner of the EU. I was the only American present, serving as an “official spokesman” for the international staff. That night, I could not […]

There is a segment of our population that believes, or at least wants to be persuaded, that the CDC, the FDA, Anthony Fauci, Nirav Shah and many other highly trained and honest health professionals are wrong about the necessity of wearing masks and getting vaccinated against COVID. Yet when these very same people get infected […]

When I made the decision to close our medical clinic to in-person visits and temporarily suspend operations in our dental clinic in March 2020, I never thought that, 18 months later, COVID-19 would still be the major public health threat that it is. I would have never believed that over 1,600 people would be diagnosed […]