Next month I will be board a schooner built in 1916 for a four day sail off the coast of Maine. It is something I have wanted to do for about 40 years and I’m just getting around to it now. There is no easy answer to the question why…

Is it possible that the soul of a dog transfers from one dog to another? About twelve years ago I had to put one of my two dogs to sleep. He was a yellow lab. He had lived about twelve years and he could no longer control his bodily functions…

In the past year or so I have refrained, for the most part, from writing about current events. There are those who argue you should never stop caring and you should never stop trying to make this world a better place. Then again, there are people like my friend, who…

Now through March 5, 2023 — The Whitney Museum in New York City is featuring an exhibition of Edward Hopper’s New York paintings. I visited during the first full week and experienced the largest number of Hopper paintings I have ever seen in one place along with several rooms dedicated to the details of his life, career, and his approach to his work. Edward Hopper’s New York.

The world is in a state of decisive flux. By that I mean, twenty-five years from now we might look back and say that’s when everything changed in a big way. That’s where and when the shift happened. 2022. The conversation is rooted in the unfinished business of the last…

(Cheyenne, Wyoming) — The defeat of Liz Cheney in the Wyoming Republican congressional primary shows just how troubled our country is two months before the next congressional election and two years before the next presidential election. It is sick with disinformation. Voters have been fed countless lies by Republican politicians…

The historian Michael Beschloss recently said, when it comes to the American presidency, “there are all the other presidents and then there’s Donald Trump.” The 45th president is in a category of his own and it is not one to which any president should aspire. Even Trump’s supporters will often…

In May, in the space of two weeks, two shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas took thirty-one lives. Nineteen of the victims, in Texas, were school children. The shootings led to expressions of outrage, words of compassion for the victims and their families and a mostly typical debate…

As the United States enters a new phase in the debate over abortion rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has effectively re-ordered the argument, but the ensuing debate also points a way toward compromise. Here’s my view of that path.