It all started with Echo & The Bunnymen. I was lying peacefully in bed, breathing shallowly and listening to the song “People Are Strange” on my favorite New York radio station, WFUV, after suffering a particularly bad viral episode in which a horrendous stomach cramp led to a 15-minute session…

Healthy Advice for Millennials and Gen Z — 60 is not the new 40; 60 is actually the year when the booby traps you’ve been unwittingly setting for yourself since you were young suddenly explode, sending your body spinning end-over-end into a litany of aches and pains too boring to talk about with anyone other than yourself. I…

Industrial recycling efforts are drying up. Stay green by being smart. — Every Tuesday evening, when I wheel to the curb our two snazzy blue recycling bins filled with plastic, paper, cardboard, glass, and metal waste, I used to get filled with a sense of pride over my small contribution to the planet’s health. Not anymore. Not since reading this article on…

“Dad?” “Mmm?” “Is Donald Trump a good guy or a bad guy?” “He’s a bad guy.” “Why?” “Well, lots of reasons.” “Like what? “Well, he owns lots of buildings. And he charges people lots of money to stay in those buildings. …

Dear Mac, This is really difficult for me…but after 27 years of marriage, it’s time for us to part. I remember the first time I set eyes on you. I had been dating a Hyundai PC (yes, that Hyundai) with MS-DOS, when at a ClubMed in Mexico I befriended a…

The movie, Yesterday, imagines a world without the Beatles. But the coming of the Beatles was foreshadowed by a “band” that existed 25,000 years ago, who honed their musical skills inside a cave just as the Beatles did nearly sixty years ago inside the Cavern Club, a brick-lined cellar underneath…

Imagine you were selected to take a trip from New York City to Hong Kong. You spend 16 hours flying to Hong Kong, then, after landing, an additional 30 minutes stuck inside the sweltering plane. When you finally get off, you spend all of 11 minutes wandering around the gate…