I am not terribly proud of the fact that I have medicines stuffed into upstairs cabinets that go back to the Jurassic or maybe before and yesterday I found a real relic — a big jar half filled with Vaseline. The top of the big square jar with the dark blue top was thick with […]

One way of looking at, or down from, a flying drone is simply to imagine that you are 200 feet tall, with telescopic eyes. Fearsome creature, you. Some mix, perhaps, of sky and land god. I mention this possibility not as celebration of you — or me — but as a prod to our imaginations. […]

When I was a young journalist, the first lesson I learned was the distinction between news and opinion. Opinions were confined to the editorial pages. The news pages were for reporting the facts — and if we were doing our jobs, conveying the truth. It was a hard-won distinction. In the 19th century, newspapers that […]

On Nov. 5, the nation’s voters will select one of two futures: America or Trumperika. A round of “Jeopardy” might help undecided voters make their choice. Answer: A day of love. Question: How did Donald Trump describe the Jan. 6, 2020, riot. That’s right. That’s how the man who led the insurrection on the nation’s […]

This election is different. The polls say it will be decided by a handful of votes, but they could be flat wrong. The most responsible pollsters admit that they could be wrong, and that they may be following each other in a herd. Survey forecasts have become nothing more than conventional wisdom right now. Candidates […]

He wore “grandfather” sweaters long before he was ever a grandfather, because they were so comfortable on him, large and long, with pockets, and did not button up to the neck. Some people called them “old man golfer sweaters” but he never cared much for what people thought of him, being his own man and […]