James Taylor almost sang at my wedding. During the waning days of winter in 1970, we were living in Cambridge with some Harvard Law students. Our friend Lou – a dropout from the Law School – had just gifted us a record album. On the cover was a skinny guy in a...
“Well, they began it.” the Jets “Well, they began it.” the Sharks “And we’re the ones to stop it once and for all…tonight.” the Jets and the Sharks I was just thirteen when I encountered the troubling reality that two people could share a singular experience and come...
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. David Hume In the summer of 2000, I was on the island of St. Kitts teaching in an international doctoral program as part of the...
I write this on the day before the October 2, 2021 Women’s March for Reproductive Rights, remembering my participation in the first Women’s March of January 2017. I have the best hat in the world. It is black and sags a bit to the side giving it the air of a living...
Do I Bow or Can I Hug? I pondered this question as I sat on the ten-hour flight from Los Angeles to Haneda Airport near Tokyo for our first ever visit to Japan. Tatsuya had been a twenty-nine year old businessman when he joined our family briefly in 1994. He came as...
