Our recent unprecedented misuse of the word “unprecedented” finally got to me. I am both a word geek and history freak, and although our stay-at-home

In the moments I’m not self-righteously clucking “tsk, tsk,” at the toilet-paper-hoarding masses, I’m doing mental math estimating how long our supply might last. We’re

Perhaps you’ve heard the story about the woman who received a text message that said, “I am here for you.” Immediately, she wrote back saying

The last time I got into a fight fight, a physical fight with hitting and punching, was almost fifty years ago. I was in junior

A few years ago I happened to be walking out of a jet bridge alongside the actor Michael Keaton. He was alone, caught for a

The stories of the wittiest are probably false. Oscar Wilde allegedly said, “Either this wallpaper goes or I do,” but those present reported nothing and

One day when my daughter was about three, I came home, sat on the couch, opened the afternoon newspaper, and buried myself inside its pages.

Memory is such a trickster. I came across a lost document while helping my dad and stepmom clean out their condo recently, notes from Monday,