At the Nobel Prize Banquet
The trumpets sound a fanfare, and I walk with 1,300 invited guests into the courtyard of the City Hall of Stockholm, which has been transformed into a dining room....
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.
Robbinsville’s Two Temples
There are two temples in Robbinsville: one for spiritual needs, the other for material desires.
When the Foxes Play
Now that almost all people are gone, the foxes have taken over the university. In broad daylight they roam the grounds, up the monumental stairs and through the ornate iron gates.
A Lesson to Remember
Do a chemistry test on your mobile while you pay for toilet paper with your little brother in the supermarket. That happened to a student of Kimberly Dempsey, a chemistry teacher at East Side Community High School in New York City.
Raising a Foodie
Our son turns out to have become a real foodie, once he was safe from his mother.
Rebooting My Neighbor
He had had a deadly variant of leukemia and maybe a few months left to live. Now there is no trace of the disease