It’s always the same: I come off a long-distance train ride marveling at how many interesting people I’ve met and with whom I’ve shared interesting conversations. Thinking about my most...

Every so often, for no particular reason, I’ll start singing the lyrics of an old radio commercial … one that stopped airing probably 60 years ago. That draws strange looks...

Back when I was in college – and that’s way back! – I had the very good fortune to have Sid Dimond as one of my professors at Boston University....

When I was a kid – probably 9 or 10 years old – I conned my folks into buying me a set of earphones that would plug into the radio...