The Christmas Party From Hell: A short-short story

If You Only Stopped to Think…

To Trump Haters at Christmas

My Holiday Short-Story Stories

My Hijab: A fictional short-short story

The First Christmas with Mom in a Decade: A fictional short-short story

"All the News That's Suddenly Fit to Print After the Election." Jason Ri...

The Big Bad Wolf Asks Forgiveness: Just in time for Christmas

Suspicious of Santa: A short-short story

Politics Without Journalism, Reason Magazine, Jan. 2025

Seductions from Gardening Catalogs

On Snow

Runthrough of My Upcoming Piano Concert: Welcome Winter

Your Year-End Self-Assessment

In Search of Christmas

The Grinch and Scrooge Talk

The Efficient Gardener

Navigating Your Employer's Holiday Party

Chocolate Coins or Real Ones? A short-short story

The Chanukah Miracle: The Sequel: A short-short story

"A Trump Voter Walks into My Office" Wall Street Journal, Dec. 3, 2024

The Art of Asking a Favor

Coates the Charlatan, Commentary Magazine, December, 2024

My Two-Minute Takeoffs on Fairy Tales and the Like

The New Democratic Minority by John Podhoretz, Commentary, Dec. 2024

Trump's Christmas: A short-short story

Cruising, Episode 10: A Buffet of Thoughts

On Self-Sacrifice

Cruising, Episode 9: Why Am I Not More Grateful?

Cruising, Episode 8: At Sea. A fictional short-short story

Cruising, Episode 7: Oxygen: A fictional short-short story

Cruising, Episode 6: Light and Dark Brothers: A fictional short-short story

Cruising, Episode 5, I Left My Underwear: A fictional short-short story