Three years ago, I was on Amtrak’s Train 19, the Crescent, traveling from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans. We were due to arrive there at 9:00 p.m., but that train...

NEW ORLEANS, LA — I had lunch in the Crescent’s dining car coming here from Washington. A man in his mid-40s was seated across from me when the train stopped...

There is wifi on the Crescent! I was delighted and actually watched a bit of the Red Sox-Oakland A’s game, although the picture on my laptop was poor and it...

I got a listicle by email this morning. That’s a recently created word referring to a newspaper or magazine article that lists ten or twelve of anything: the ten most...