I have a clean driving license -- no points. Not that this  distinction is of much import in my life these days, as we no longer have a car. And it must be said that I was not always so pure: I was penalized two points for a moving violation years...

I know where I'll be on Sept. 11: at St. Luke's in Darien, where so many families lost mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, brothers,sisters, sons, daughters. Best friends. I'm glad to go to this fine parish. I hope I can do some good, and I think so.

I won't be in New...

A striking photograph on the front page of today's New York Times: the space shuttle Endeavor coming in for a landing last night, after completing its final mission.  Discovery is already finished its career, and Atlantis has one more run, which will be in July.  No more NASA space shuttles...

Things seem pretty solid here at home after the Justice Department announced that it would no longer defend the constitutionality of Defense of Marriage Act cases. So it seems that our straight marriage has survived the unspecified threats gay marriage poses to it. I still don't get what these threats...

We sat across from each other in a restaurant. Everything about him was sad: his face a grim mask, his eyes full of unshed tears, his body still as death. Only his lip trembled, just a little bit. I'd have missed it if I hadn't known to look.

"Could you...