In 1978, as I was finishing my undergraduate degree in Boston, I got a call from a teacher at Berklee School of Music. He was very excited about this musical act he was working with who had financial backing, and was looking for a manager who could make him a…

I spent this weekend at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara attending a conference about “modern dilemmas, mythic sense and ancient imagination” called Leaping Between the Horns. The speaker, Michael Meade, is a wily and wiry fellow who’s been stalking the ancient stories about humankind for the past 35 years….

R. Foster Winans This piece was commissioned by the Hartford Courant on the occasion of the release of Connecticut former Governor Rowland from Federal prison after serving 10 months for bribery. Bucks County, PA writer, Foster Winans, a former Wall Street Journal columnist who was convicted of insider trading 22…

I decided to do something a little different for my birthday this year. What with the nomination of Judge Alito to the Supreme Court, I figured the days of elective reproductory surgery without the approval of my spouse may be coming to an end (you’ll just have to excuse the…