I remember the first day I met Jake Gyllenhaal. It was one of those crisp spring days of 2005 when anything felt possible and the blooming trees waft a faint smell of cotton candy into the air, assuming cotton candy …

During the summers of my youth, my days were spent largely walking the banks of Cheshire Lake Pond, a man-made lake predating man-made lakes. I still recall the warm summer air and cool breezes blowing through my short pants. That …

The war in Afghanistan has dragged on for over a decade now. What that means is that a whole punch of fourth graders can honestly say, “I have never been alive in a time when my country was not at …