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This fall, my wife Martha and I spent a month living in an apartment in Riverdale, a neighborhood in the North Bronx, New York, a few miles north of Washington Heights, where our younger son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter live. We tried out the possibility of moving to New York City to be closer to them. …

We have more power than we know. It’s time to use it. I frequently dream about events before they happen. Sometimes I’ll have a frightening dream before a terrible event; I wrote here about a dream I had before Trump was elected the first time. And sometimes the images that come are beautiful and encouraging, …

This week I dreamed about my mother. And I dreamed about war. I am in a car with my mother, running errands. I am driving, and she sits in the passenger seat. She’s young, with a beautiful face and dark, curly hair. As I look at her, I see clearly the ways I look like …

This is a love letter to community—mine, yours, all of ours. Last night, I went with my wife and friends to a Seattle Town Hall event that featured Alison Bechdel. If you don’t know her work, you have a wonderful surprise awaiting you! In the early 1980s, she created the comic strip “Dykes to Watch …

Photo by Silas Baisch on Unsplash I started learning to negotiate the ocean when I could barely walk. Every summer, my parents rented a cottage for our family on the South Jersey shore for two weeks. We stayed in a little town called Avalon, which is also the name of a magical, mystical island in …