After 40 years working in the post office, my father, the world's sweetest, kindest and most unassuming man, retired and moved to Florida with my mother and my grandmother. They bought an apartment at Century Village in West Palm Beach. It was Red Buttons' favorite place. That's what it said...

Okay, here's what I think. You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama...

I was nearing the end of what I believed to have been one of my most profound parental lectures. A true teaching moment between myself and my then 11 year old daughter Cailin. One she would remember forever. Perhaps passing on its wisdom one day to her own children. That...

When I was growing up in Brooklyn my father always worked at least two jobs and sometimes three. When I left for school he was asleep. And, when I came home he was at work. And, yet, all through high school he never missed a game I played.