Congratulations Kurt Eichenwald, writer of yesterday’s front-page New York Times article about how a thirteen-year-old California youth became ensnared in child pornography and then prostitution through his own family’s sad disconnectedness and a web cam. This article will no doubt be talked about for weeks. The article made me feel so sad for children today.…

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I have rejoiced over the small pleasures that today’s New York City transit strike has granted me. Mr. Chattering stayed at home to work at his home computer and I am warmed by his presence. The Chattering boys, now on holiday break, are happy we are all together.…

Here is a provocative, many might say highly inflammatory passage from the opening chapter of the book “The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice”by Carolyn McVickar Edwards, now in its 5th Anniversary Edition. “In Rome, in the first four hundred years of what we now call the…

I had cut back on my black tea consumption because–like many women post-childbirth, pre-menopause–I run slightly anemic, and both tea and coffee are known to inhibit the body’s absorption of iron. But now, a Swedish team has suggested that drinking two cups of black or green tea daily may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer…

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