Perspective

Long Time Gone

My first job in publishing was at a company that produced, among other things, the leading magazine for elementary school teachers. It had a…

Years ago I wrote a number of articles about Walmart for this and other magazines. I’m sure my earlier pieces included a lot of…

Fall 2016, Perspective

When you fly on commercial airlines a lot, your subconscious mind learns to recognize sounds that are normal and sounds that are unusual, even…

When someone asks me if I like dogs, my answer is always the same. “It depends on the dog.” I feel the same way…

My mother did not believe that it was appropriate to give a woman a household appliance for Christmas or her birthday, and everyone in…

Six years ago, I bought a diesel-powered SUV. One of the reasons I chose it was that it was classified as a “clean diesel…

by Kevin Fahy I got my first driver’s license when I was 16 years old, but it took me three years to save…