Most employee handbooks say — in multiple places — that employment is at-will, meaning that the employer or the employee has the right to end the relationship at any time for any reason. Handbooks ...

A groan went up from those attending, and a young woman’s voice called out, “Would you please repeat that.” I smiled and said “Of course. Your children will be about as disciplined in their lives as ...

There has been a lot in the news about how we discipline our children in recent months. Who can forget the images on TV of the woman in the St. Louis Mills parking lot whipping her young son? And I ...

When Black Lives Matter protesters hit the streets in the summer of 2020, the response by New York City police officers was in many instances shocking. The use of tactics such as “kettling” ...

In 1983, I fell hopelessly, ineffably in love. A book did it: “The Well-Tempered Sentence,” by Karen Elizabeth Gordon. For moments in my agonized ecstasy (or ecstatic agony – I was careening from one ...