When we lived in Brooklyn in the mid-90s, we had two parakeets: Guido and Rudy. Unusual for a parakeet, Rudy could talk and it was pretty...

Years ago, when I was still living in New York, I had a neighbor whom I got to know pretty intimately as we'd walk several miles together...

Some seem shocked that women would assist in recruiting and grooming young girls but the couple-dynamic is really effective in gaining trust

Snark is the new prayer.

Christmas nostalgia, Brooklyn circa 1960.

I'm reading Before We Were Yours and it's pretty good, but that's not the point right now. I just got to a part where the protagonist...

Baby boomers have struggled for years with hypocritical "don't use drugs!" warnings to their own children, when in fact they themselves...

1. I have been struck by lightning. Yes, really. I was about 22 years old, sitting in my apartment watching an electrical storm as I've...

Long time readers of this blog are quite familiar with many of the malapropisms, non-sequiturs and generally outrageous comments that...