Unwrapping the Keto Diet
This keto diet goes against everything I have learned about healthy eating.
Teaching in America
Is there anything more difficult than being a public school teacher in America? Yes, being a math or science teacher in New York City.
A Crash Course on Micro-aggressions
It was time for my daughter to give me a crash course from her school curriculum about “micro-aggressions.”
Nothing Goes Unnoticed
Nothing has gone unnoticed. And that is a disturbing thought.
The Beginning of a New Life
This was the beginning of a new life in which I myself was involved and had a voice and a mind and free will of my own.
Robbinsville’s Two Temples
There are two temples in Robbinsville: one for spiritual needs, the other for material desires.
When Germs Travel
A century ago around a thousand children died of measles every year in the Netherlands alone. Half a million children, mostly young, died worldwide. I am grateful that our children were born in another time.
Brash, Real-World Voices of New York City’s Tabloids Under Siege
The shrinking of local newspapers in the United States is a tragedy.
Raising a Foodie
Our son turns out to have become a real foodie, once he was safe from his mother.
Lost in New York
Whenever my neighbor gets off the train at Penn Station, he jumps on the platform, throws out his arms, and sings, “New York, New York, it’s a helluva town!...