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By JONATHAN KAHANE

 I voted for Kamala Harris in the recent presidential election, and I’m very “disappointed” in the result. I chose that word carefully because it, and not the outcome of the vote per se, is the focus of this essay.From the moment this campaign began...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 I don’t watch much television, mainly the news/weather broadcasts and a baseball game now and then if the Sox are on. Unfortunately it has become too painful to watch them recently, so instead I root against those Boys from The Bronx. Regrettably, my...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 A couple of weeks ago an alternative universe must have been created, and by some combination of supernatural forces I met up with my two college roommates at a nondescript diner somewhere in rural (very rural) Maine. We hadn’t seen each other in...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 I really tried this time. I gave it everything I had. I even trained for months before it began — before the flame was lit.I did my utmost to watch the Olympics on TV this year. If I watch just one more point of beach volleyball, I will go stark...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 I don’t like braggarts. I seem to find myself in their company more and more these days. It makes me feel quite uncomfortable, whether I’m in their midst or simply reading about them in a book or journal, or even listening to them drone on during...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 I admit at the outset that I have a lot of nerve to write an essay complaining about how people are using the English language these days. My teacher in high school used to put comments in the margins of my papers like “primer prose,” “dangling...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

A couple of months ago my son recommended a book to me. You’d think I’d have learned by now to treat any advice he proffers with extreme caution. Against my better judgment, I reasoned, he’s 37 years old now, married, raising a family, and an...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

My 78th Thanksgiving has come and gone — the quintessential American family holiday when kin gather together to tell the same old stories and laugh at the same old jokes over and over again. (Did I tell you the one about the time in 1955 when I went...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

Aging can be a relentless and stern master who often rewards his students with wisdom, that is if the students are willing and eager to put their minds to the task. Unfortunately, more often than not, the opportunity to acquire this understanding is...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

I have been rather surprised about the paucity of columns and letters on the opinion page from Gazette readers concerning the latest banking crisis, which has affected the neighborhood and the world at large, for that matter. My assumption is that...