In another life -- or if I could do this one all over again -- I think I'd go into design work. Of course, then I would have to choose between interior and exterior -- in this case, exterior being   

Barry Bonds breaks baseball's all-time home run record, and the cloud hanging over him means little to me. I have my reasons: He remains unconvicted in a court of law, and I fail to see whether ste  

A few weeks ago my wife and I had a couple of friends over for dinner. The weeknight dinner format is one that my wife and two of her friends with kids have developed into a routine. Tuesday nights  

We're a nation fascinated with the exhibition of athletic greatness, yet we can be oblivious to it unless it's homegrown or brazenly displayed. We loved Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan,  

Sometimes a news week gives you nothing, and then there are times when you dread what's foisted upon you. Like the O.J. Simpson-Jeff Ruby situation. I'm going to get around to it, but I'd like to a  

I turned 8 in 1977 just before the beginning of fall, so most of the year, the heart of it, I was 7. What do I remember about being 7 or the '70s? Looking back, I'm aware of the factoids and detail  

I've been working on a book project over the last few months. Much of my time has been spent reading and re-reading the email exchanges between my wife and me during our Match.com courtship. For ne  

During my senior year at Penn, I stumbled across a listing for a memorial concert sponsored by some members of the Coltrane family operating out of the West Philadelphia row house that had belonged  

Right about now, I'm going to probably make a few Biblical scholars and homilists irate with my hackneyed musing about philanthropy. That's alright, because there are a few well-heeled members of t  

I'm not feeling the holiday spirit. That's not to say I don't have much to celebrate this year. I'm a newlywed who proposed so awkwardly on New Year's Eve that I promised my wife I'd try it again e  

What's the devil to do? Back in the day, there were deals to be made. We all know the mythic version of the story: Faust wants all the knowledge in the world, signs on the dotted line with Mephisto  

This coming Dec. 3 would have marked the ninth anniversary of the last time I shaved my head. That's almost a decade that I've carried dreads. Prior to that period, I'd been shaving my head. The lo  

People laughed when Prince changed his name during the mid-1990s to an unpronounceable symbol that was a combination of the iconic representations of male and female. Primarily, the move was a sign  

Due to the circumstances of my birth, I'd been imprisoned in the mountains. I spent my childhood there serving a sentence without a prescribed term limit. I was afforded a few weeks away during the  

Congratulations to John Pepper. Just when you think one man has done it all -- former Procter & Gamble CEO, Boston Scientific Corporation board member, Yale University vice president, Executive Comm