I took off for a few weeks this summer. After 10 years and hundreds of daily or weekly essays, I needed a “sabbatical” of sorts. It...

I'm taking a couple of weeks off before. In TV, they call it a "hiatus," but that sounds too formal. I just need a couple of weeks to...

When I was growing up, we didn’t have central air conditioning. It just wasn’t as prevalent as it is nowadays, but we (or at least I)...