"A man’s not supposed to cry." -Marvin Gaye        

Within a few years four directors of large Charlottesville non-profit organizations were fired.   

Someone once said that he wished that he still had "the genius for living" that he had as a child. I have been long...

My first sports event was when as a five year old I saw the Baltimore Orioles in their 1954 debut. I have been a...

We recently saw a documentary on singer/social activist Phil Ochs. People, like me, know the name but not much else....

Immediately after the shootings in Tucson, people held forth on how the nasty rhetoric in our current politics might...

Each year there is published a listing of the most popular names in the United States. My boomer generation from...

Issues, character and experience aside, I believe the personalities of our presidential candidates have made an...

It was 1974 and I was in a downtown Boston ice cream parlour struggling to choose a flavor. To my right, I heard...

Over the last 20 years, I have had over a hundred letters and columns published in Charlottesville. Reader...