It's Either Sadness or Bookphoria...

Many people ask me how I select the books I read. Sometimes they've been recommended by someone else whose preferences are similar to m...

In the musical Rent , the late Jonathan Larson talked about how life was made up of 525,600 minutes, and that you should measure your life...

It may not always feel this way, but it's good to keep this in perspective. I don't know where George Takei gets some of these, but ...

Last night I had the awesome pleasure of watching the Washington Redskins clinch the NFC East division for the first time since 1999, bea...

I think I first realized my family didn't celebrate Christmas when we moved into our house in Marlboro, NJ, when I was about 4-1/2 y...

(All apologies to Jimmy Buffett for corrupting the title of his song.) Today has been a remarkable day. The world has been utterly fixa...

It was a day on which everything changed. And for those outside of the intelligence community, there wasn't even a sign of trouble on...

One of my favorite blogs, kenneth in the (212) , posts a regular feature called "Song of the Day." The blog's author, Kenneth ...

As the 9/11 terrorist attacks unfolded, particularly on the World Trade Center, the world watched in horror. Although the city (and our c...

I know that sports fans take victory pretty seriously, and often don't handle defeat well, not to mention when people needle their tea...

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." --Semisonic Happy New Year! No matter how you chose to ring in 20...

In a little more than eight hours, we here on the East Coast will bid adieu to 2011. It has been an interesting year, and I look forward to ...

The world lost a creative genius, a dreamer, an innovator who knew no bounds, and a visionary last night with the passing of Apple founder S...

"Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again." —Billy Joel One of the worst things abo...

Well, I'd imagine someone in JCPenney's design department may lose their job... A great deal of brouhaha in the media has ensu...

With the 2012 elections not quite around the corner (but closer than I'd like them to be), a great deal of political conversation has ag...

Children of the 80s (not to mention romantics and die-hard John Cusack fans) know the above image is from Say Anything . The movie, directed...

In a crushing blow to bibliophiles everywhere (not to mention its 10,700 employees), Borders announced earlier this week that it would be cl...

I saw a commercial the other day for a new television series coming this fall called The Playboy Club , starring Eddie Cibrian. It got me t...

In a verdict that rippled with the same level of shock as the decision in the initial OJ Simpson case, Casey Anthony was acquitted yesterday...