So many great stories, whether old or new

I just turned 77 years old, and as I write this, I feel older and wiser. Well, wiser in some ways as we can always learn from our own experiences, but also facing the challenges of short-term memory loss.

As the son of Holocaust survivors, I thank God for every moment I have on this planet and when I sit in my rooftop hot tub and look out at the vast Universe, I thank God that humans are an incredible and extremely rare species.

I was very close to Father William Treacy and he gave me a column to post in this newspaper a week before he died at the age of 103 last year. His brain was working we...