“What’s this?”
Found behind a stack of magazines and worn paperbacks on top of the antique bookcase. A dark leather box three-and-a-half by two-and-a-half inches with a silver push button. The word Widex imprinted between white stitching.
“Oh, that’s where I put it. Ha, never would have found that.”...

The first thing Harlan Ellison did when he entered the classroom was ask for a paper cup. He then told the seventeen UCLA students, “Every time one of you pinheads uses the word ‘like’ as if you were a Valley Girl, you will put a quarter in this cup...

I’ve just seen a screening of Black Panther, the first blockbuster action film written by, directed by and starring African-Americans, and what I thought about as I watched was the first time I heard the expression “Black Power.”  It was, actually, the...

There was a time, and not that long ago, when I championed the freelance life. I spoke to high school and college students about it, encouraging them to follow their dreams, and using my own life as an example.  It was possible, I extolled, to live by...