Rants of the Newly Old

            Drs. Chodoff, Legault, and Kneipp shared an office on the second floor of what might hav...

There were rats, rats, rats as big as cats, In the store, in the store. There were rats, rats, rats as big as cats, In the Quartermaster&...

            After being fired by the lawyers, I was nervous about a new job. But United World Federalists seemed perfe...

            The law firm was called Krieger & Jorgensen, and its office was in a townhouse, up several steps to th...

              At the end of June, I moved out of the Clinical Center in Bethesda and into an apartment in Washington, D.C., where I was to r...

            I have a sleep-monitoring app on my phone—because I think a device will tell me what time I’ve gone to sle...

            What, you may ask, is a “normal control”? She (or he) is the person in a scientific study who represents t...

I may have mentioned that the trade magazine I freelance for is having its 150th anniversary this year, and it is putting together a special...

A three-line headline calls for a haiku golden shovel. Here are two. What is history But loss and beauty hammered Into a burnt home. H...

The bombs fall in the predawn for Maximum fear. If they are real. A meta War sends bombs upward toward workers P...

For National Poetry Month, I’m trying the golden shovel format with New York Times headlines again. Too busy yesterday t...

This month of slices has felt harder than usual. I’ve missed a couple of days without eve realizing it. That’s partly because I’ve been work...

Many of you are teaching students to write. You should know that many professional writers are still learning to write, and some of them don...

I need to apologize.             A year ago, a subgroup of one of my book groups read, a few chapters a month, Layla Saad’s “Me and White S...

             I like to take surveys. It’s probably a weakness, since it can take time that would be better spent reading or writing. Someho...