True confession time: I’ve only ever seen one football game my entire life. It’s true. (I don’t count high school football, where my kids were in the band.) The only football game I ever attended was a very cold and windy University of Connecticut football game in the winter of 1984, when my father took… Continue reading

I am still a Toys R Us kid, long after I grew up. In the ’70s and ’80s, as I tell my kids way too much, we didn’t have a ton of options for toys. There were a few toy stores and toy sections of places like Caldor and Bradlees when I was growing up… Continue reading

I was on my way last week to revisit a part of my past when I ended up running into another one, in the same place. This is Florida, New York, near where I used to live and work in the Hudson Valley. I have a connection to the town, but haven’t been back in… Continue reading