The Olympics are a peculiar kind of mirror There must be a metaphor in all those broken medals at the Winter Olympics in Italy. At least six athletes, including Americans Breezy Johnson and Alysa Liu, who won gold in women’s downhill skiing and team figur... See more
Savoring what elite athletes can do that we cannot Elite athletes are different from you and me. Their physical abilities are simply beyond our grasp. We are reminded of this every so often. Like this weekend, when the Winter Olympics begin in Italy and t... See more
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A chance encounter with childhood friend, a flood of memories My wife and I were having dinner a few months ago in the garden patio of a restaurant on Wooster Street in New Haven, not far from my old Connecticut stomping grounds. We had just placed our or... See more
Trees as property are like no other Another week, another hole in the sky. Not to be melodramatic, but that’s how I feel when another tree goes down in the neighborhood. This one was tall, but it didn’t fall on its own. It was taken down, a preemptive str... See more