The weekend ends with great sorrow at the loss of Isaiah O’Kane, Hunter ’17.

We are deeply sorry to share the sad news that a beloved member of our community, Isaiah O’Kane, Hunter ’17, died today from a serious subway accident that occurred on […]

Family chef bows to peer pressure and prepares two kinds of latkes. Here’s my annotated menu. Happy Thanksgiving!

Meatballs (Lois’ famous recipe) Garlic knots (only in NYC where pizza dough is available on every corner) Crudities (so I can devour the hummus)  ~~~~~~~~~ Roasted cauliflower/baby arugula/radicchio with smoked […]

It’s good to be home.

Every since LADY AT THE OK CORRAL was published in March, 2013, I have been on the road at least several times a month.  I’ve been up and down the […]

I love to vote. But the process is killing my love. Give me ten innovations to fix this ridiculous system.

1.  I walk in, and someone has to look up the right district?  table?  for me to vote in. How about a big old sign — a blackboard — a […]

Five things I learned from Red Burns

1.  Nobody Knows.  As in, where is technology going?  Since nobody knows, keep asking questions, keep experimenting, keep moving in the same step-by-step direction known to all good entrepreneurs.  The solutions […]

132 years ago: The Gunfight at the OK Corral. Why are we still talking about this today?

The OK Corral has stuck in the American psyche since October 26, 1881, when the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday strode down Tombstone’s Main Street and confronted a quartet of […]

NO MISSION, NO MARGIN. Even nonprofits have to eat.

I like this “Red Hat for Linux” thinking out of EdX. Haven’t tried one of their courses, but I am inspired to do so now. Any recommendations?

Before they were victims, they were a family.

So wrote my daughter Caroline, when she posted this picture.  We have had many a serious and sometimes contentious conversation about the unbearable weight of history carried by these pictures, […]

Three days after #Gravity, 5 things I’m still thinking about.

1.  Biblical Everywoman, Ryan as AdamEve.  When she rises from the mud at the end of the movie, struggling to shrug off gravity, she is no longer the woman who […]

Peaceful and productive conversation at Macaulay.

Many thanks to the 40 or so students and alumni who came to an open forum last week. Our conversation ranged from the seminar taught by Professor Petraeus to the […]