Prima facie, I seem like the sort of person who would find the bleak November landscape depressing. The dead leaves, the darkness, the cold,...

It's been four years since I last posted about the annual New York Sheep and Wool Festival, known succinctly as "Rhinebeck" i...

When I was growing up, my life revolved around singing in an Episcopal (Anglican) church choir. My entire life was organised around the chur...

Victory and concession speeches carry no legal weight. A candidate can concede or declare victory at any point during the vote counting whe...

When I was a high school senior choosing a college, one of my main criteria was aesthetics. I demanded a beautiful campus, with historic, i...

This pandemic should be a wake-up call to decrease economic inequality. Instead it will exacerbate it. If every country had locked down so...

Childbirth has always been dangerous for both the women and babies involved. In the developed world, dangers from lack of medical care have ...