Easy huevos rancheros
Rancher’s style beans and eggs with salsa. You can make your own salsa and refried beans, but when you’re in a time-crunch, there’s nothing wrong with cans and jars.
Behind the Fringe Curtain: Get creative, or die trying
When it comes to writing a play for the Fringe Festival, the rules change exponentially: Write, direct, stage manage, produce, and do the tech if you’re not actually on stage performing.
Behind the Fringe Curtain: A look into how the theatre festival is put together
The Hamilton Fringe Festival is no numbers game. At the Fringe, pick three random plays and you’ll walk away with something.
My wife and I have a morning ritual where magic happens: We read aloud to each other
The physical act of sitting down in the same place around the same time daily to do the same thing — i.e., establishing a routine — is, like the act of love, a mode of communication.
A Palestinian state is possible but requires Arab countries as partners
A Palestinian state remains possible, but only if the regional Arab countries are partners in the process of its creation.
A fun Hamilton food challenge with the grandkids
A summer, eat-outside contest to see what was the best — first it was ice cream, then pizza.
Trip home to the U.S. a painful reminder of lessons too quickly forgotten
In the United States sometimes it feels like the right hand doesn’t and can’t see what the left hand is doing.
As a kid I couldn’t trust the adults entrusted to guide me
(Toronto Star, Nov. 3, 2017) I was among the youngest kids in Grade 6 in my school in western Massachusetts, so when my friends who’d turned 11 over the summer left Cubs for Boy Scouts, I felt left behind. I remember friends talking animatedly about a camping trip in early September. I desperately wanted to…
The wind, the sand, yourself
Tiny grains sweep over the sand, pushed forward by an invisible force …
The key to Cairo with children is the food
The Egyptian capital, captivating now as Revolution Central, does not want for culinary interest.