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The Far Right found me a month or so ago, and now not a day goes by that I don’t get half a dozen emails from Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump Jr., or worse.

I don’t believe there are any secret spots anymore. That was certainly the case on Saturday, when the middle child and I went to a normally empty place along the ocean for a late-afternoon swim.

Cribbage? You never know what will bring two strangers together.

As the Black Lives Matter movement focuses attention on the legacy of slavery and racism in the United States, there is a sense that the assessment is incomplete

I’ll be goddamned if all those cassettes I lost to a flooded basement didn’t help catalog a life.

It’s gratifying to have memories of a youth ill-spent.

The deer I was prepared for. The rabbits I was not.

A trip to the sporting goods store turns into a moment of reflection.

When I was very small I had a conception of the calendar year as a wheel, with different hues in sections at the end of spokes — a wagon wheel, a View Master card, a color wheel.

My mom’s ability to reach out, give you the spotlight, kill at cocktail hour, and, by God, hold up a conversation, is a source of endless luxury for my dad, sister, and me.

You have to wonder how friendships will survive the pandemic.

Every American should have the experience of complete, untethered freedom, if only for a while.