Cultivating Outrage

I sent the following letter to the Washington Post , hoping that if it was printed, Supreme Court justices would see it (not published): T...

Explorer 1 Late one night when I was 7 years old, my father took me out in our front yard. It was a clear night, and we could see lots ...

I sent this letter to the Los Angeles Times in August 2012 (not published): Re: "An eruv in the Hamptons? Why not?" (Opinion, ...

Link to more photos. I made a short trip to Yellowstone National Park and vicinity a few weeks ago. I'd always wanted to see th...

Rodney with salmon (see below) My first project at JPL was the Alaska SAR Facility , a receiving station for radar data from Earth-orbiti...

The Ohio River seen from the Overlook in Eden Park. Link to more photos I've graded Advanced Placement Computer Science exams for ...

Bear in a stream feeding Kaflia Bay In 2000, I won a bear-watching trip to Alaska in a sweepstakes that I didn't even know I had en...

Ian Whitcomb ( Index of autographs )

Edmund White ( Index of autographs )

(Click the image to enlarge it.) William Samelson was one of my Hebrew teachers at Temple Beth-El when I was a boy. His first novel, All...