Of Many Things

These days I look to children to remind me about enthusiasm.

For a Scandinavian-American, a visit from the bishops of Stockholm, Copenhagen and Reykjavik was a rare treat.

My boys can be hard to deal with. They are little engines of anxiety and disorder. I wouldn't trade them for anyone else.

The most unusual Winter Olympics sports are often my favorites.

Living in New York, the countryman in me fears losing touch with the cycle of the seasons.

Three years and 100 conversations later, the America podcast has proved to be a modest success.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And it's starting to bug me just a little bit.

At 96, my mother is pulling away from us, but her spirit has not vanished.

Glimpsing the world's needs and sorrows on a New York City subway train