COMMENTARY

2016 Dear Members of the Nigerian Royal Family: Thank you for all your correspondence over the past 20 years. I am so, so sorry I wasn’t able to respond to your very generous offers to share your fortunes with me in exchange for my help in getting your funds out …

2006 A few months ago I refinanced my house. Financing, or refinancing, a mortgage, is something a lot of you out there have done at least once in your life. Nowadays, we’re talking about taking on a debt in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, certainly not a debt to …

2006 During my extensive travels as a baseball writer for The Lowell Sun, I have often been asked exactly where Lowell, Massachusetts, is. When I tell them Lowell is the geographic center of New England, anyone remotely familiar with a map greets that declaration with a natural degree of skepticism. …

2012         I’m wishing my best friend in the whole world, who is turning 66, a Grumpy Birthday this year. I know it’s supposed to be a Happy Birthday, but, cynic that I am, don’t birthdays become increasingly less happy the older we get? I mean, with …

2006          After an absence of 52 years, I returned to the stage last week. I thought I had retired for good more than a half-century ago, leaving the theater when I was on top, leaving the audience wanting more. But the public wanted more of me, …

2016             I have to admit that the GPS is a technological marvel. I’m one of those people blessed with a terrific sense of direction who never thought I would need one to find my way around the United States or even much of Europe, and I really don’t. But …