The Foer Family

Screams could be heard echoing across Brooklyn on a clear day this past November, when news of 24-year-old Joshua Foer’s book deal made its way around town. It wasn’t just the ungodly advance Mr. Foer received—an eye-popping $1.25 million—for his first-ever literary venture. Nor was it the fact that the proposal and its celebrity author Read More

Filthy Dog

Beautiful spring day, took my dogs up to the firetower. Here is Franklin, scoping out the Mighty Hudson.

Should Puppies Meet Their Natural Birth Mothers?

Back in January, my wife bugged me to bring home two puppies from the pound that looked like little yellow foxes. They loved the woods, and before long I was nuts about them; then I got curious to find out who their biological parents were. The puppies were so cute that everyone I passed on Read More