ON THE VERGE

The dog doesn’t like the weather. The foot of snow. The freezing cold, most days barely above zero. Each day she gives us a stunned glance b...

It’s cold and I walk out into it. Four degrees, but it feels like negative twelve. What does negative twelve feel like? Cold is cold. Okay, ...

A few days ago, I had surgery on my hand. My right ring finger had what is called a trigger finger. What happens is when you try to bend you...

The protest was in my neighborhood, a three-minute walk from where I live. It was raining. I knew the protest was going on, and I didn’t wan...

I said this to my friends at 10 pm on New Years Eve. Our quarter-of-a-century-long tradition is to stay up until midnight, watch the ball dr...

Every year the day after Christmas, my family goes to an escape room. If you haven’t been to one of these, imagine being locked in a room fo...

On the longest day of the year, we had a party, and randomly, everyone brought pink wine. Someone made an elaborate Stonehenge sculpture out...