The Van Winkle Project

Strictly speaking, it's clear to me that I'm not qualified to name the top news story. What do I know about most of last year? From January 1, 2010 to September 11, 2011, I was still unplugged from the news. I was doing my best to imitate a guy named Van Winkle. "Asleep," I was fully committed to my 365-day, 24/7 news-snooze... Still, all things must end, and over the past few months I've caught up on some of what I missed. It seems pretty obvious what belongs on all the experts' Top Ten N

End of a Year: Dreaming in 3-D

Marty invites you to put on the 3-D glasses for his latest film. A couple of weeks ago I did something that was forbidden to me one year ago when I was still Van Winkled. I went to the Century 21 Cinema and took in a newly released film. My son and I bought tickets and a box of buttered popcorn. We settled back in our chairs and put on 3-D glasses for Hugo. What's in the Box? There's a scene in this latest Martin Scorcese's movie (based on the Brian Selznick hybrid novel/graphic

Baby Baby: Thoughts on a Crowded Planet

Is it coming to this? Packed in tight, togetherness... As I very slowly get caught up on some of the news I missed during The Van Winkle Project I still haven't looked at the newspaper I saved that heralds arguably the biggest news story of 2011: the death of Osama Bin Laden. That's where I thought I'd be today. My nose and eyes and mind tipped toward Pakistan. But history surges ahead. Rather than moving backwards in time, I'm reading about the inglorious, cell phoned to the world death of

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