"It's hard to take a person seriously when they're wearing a pink kitten hat," he scoffed. It doesn't have to be...

“What’s that face about?” Not surprisingly, she wouldn’t answer. Still, I persisted. “Come on. Tell me. Maybe I can help.” ...

How does this dumb thing work? I pointed a black plastic box at the television. Nothing happened. Well, not nothing, exactly...

It's brutal out there. Not just the cold, which is seasonably barbarous as well as inevitable, but also the climate. The air in w...

In one cozy moment, quiet had settled over the house. 

Christmas had come and gone.

There was nothing to do but throw another log on th...

“In four miles take a left onto Route Nine.” For fifty minutes I’d been following Siri’s every instruction, starting with an easterly...

My mailbox is over its quota. Now, in the real world, this might mean that the nice folks at the Post Office are drowning in letters...

I’m happy to be able to wish you a “Merry Christmas” again. Of course, my glad tidings are true and genuine reflections of the profit...

Life was simple once. I’m not pining for Neanderthal simple or Little House on the Prairie simple, I’m just wishing life’s simple thi...

We always seem to see celebrities whenever we go to The Big Apple. One year I saw Yoko Ono in SoHo. The next, I bumped into Meryl Stre...