Having always been a fairly hard-headed realist, even as a kid, I never believed in magic.  Nor did my parents, so no one ever tried to convince me that it was “real.”  (I am sure that they would be as miserable as I am in this Trumpian “post-truth” world we are now forced to inhabit.) … Read More

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I recently had my one-year belated 50th college reunion. It was chock full of fascinating and thoughtful classmate panels and other programs (as it damn well better have, since I was one of the people on the reunion committee in charge of them). But, as I knew would be the case — for myself as… Read More

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