When I drove by Eddie Gabor’s old house, I was transported back 20 years — back to the wonderful Fourth of July outings my family once enjoyed there.

Eddie Gabor was my grandmother’s longtime companion. For the last 20 years of…

I’m torn, if you want to know the truth.

Last week, the United States Senate passed the “Cash for Clunkers” bill — they tucked it into an emergency war-funding bill — and President Obama will soon sign it into law.

Here’s how…

Ah, Father’s Day is upon us. I can’t think of a better time for dads and men to remember how to be dads and men.

Flip on the tube any time during the day and you’ll see fathers portrayed as…

Now is a good time to revisit the 1958 essay in which Leonard Read examined how a pencil is made — how it is miraculous that a pencil is made at all.

The standard pencil begins when a cedar is cut…

Ah, summer is almost upon us. That causes me to think wistfully of how much better my life could be.

I am a writer, you see. I have been working hard to keep up with my corporate clients. With the economy…

“Dead? What do you mean you’re dead?”

“You heard me. My physical life has long been over. Some of us are able to show ourselves to the living and that is why I’m here now.”

“What do you want?”

“Respect, my friend —…

I turned 47 a few weeks ago. Boy, am I getting cranky.

Now in middle age, I’m less able to suffer fools gladly (including this fool). Many things annoy me:

A girl in her early 20s goes into a beer store. She…

I was just a naive kid at the time. That’s how I got snookered.

It happened in the spring of 1978. My best friend Ayresie and I had quit our jobs as cooks at the Ponderosa Steakhouse to start a business…

I’m turning into my father.

My father was born in 1933. He was a paperboy in the days when paperboys stood on city corners and shouted “Extra!”

In my father’s home, the newspaper still is king. He has two delivered daily.…

Ring. Ring.

"Hello, the Department of Government-Backed GM Warranties, may I help you?"

"Yes, my new GM car won’t start."

"Hold, please … Hello, the Department of the Electronic Ignition-Challenged, may I help you?"

"I bought a new GM car. It won’t start."

"Does it…