My wife and I are part of a condominium association, and we traveled to where our condo is for the annual meeting. This year the meeting was well attended, more so than in previous years, because of... Read more >>

I always love the beginning of the political primary season because, despite its warts and endless rants, it is like the first week of school; filled with possibilities. I have carefully... Read more >>

Okay, I know that we’ve heard a great deal about bullying over the last few years. However, I don’t think that enough can be said about something that affects so many innocent people in... Read more >>

I close my eyes; I’m back there banging fat felt eraser blocks together making chock dust clouds slide down the slanted rays of sunshine coming through the open window on this golden afternoon... Read more >>

I’m at the kitchen table writing on my laptop while my ten-year-old son tackles and pins the six-year-old neighbor girl in the living room. It’s a wrestling match. When the kitchen timer... Read more >>

“Did you fall down and smack your little head on the pavement?” snapped Miranda Priestly to her assistant in The Devil Wears Prada. With that one line, played with abandon by Meryl Streep,... Read more >>

We all remember the kid in elementary school who used to lord over the playground like a pint-sized fascist dictator. Perhaps he was an early bloomer who ruled by sheer size, or she had an older... Read more >>

There are lots of theories about bullies. To some, they’re pitiful victims of low self-esteem, driven to hurt others by their own self-loathing. To others, they’re arrogant, unfeeling... Read more >>

Pettiness, bullies, clicks, mean girls, in-crowds, pressure—all of these things evoke why most of us disliked high school and our teenage years. Read more >>

He graduated with his class from Bloomfield High School in 1982, one year ahead of me. I am pretty sure he was not an honor student.  I never really “met” the kid. I was first aware... Read more >>