Why So Phanatic?
January 26, 2022 | Jim Angehr
I have four kids, and with each of them I’ve had the talk. In this case, the talk isn’t about the birds and the bees but rather The Birds. I.e., the Eagles, plus the Phillies and the Sixers. The talk was originally precipitated by...
Rest and Unrest
January 20, 2022 | Jim Angehr
Hard to believe that it’s already a decade old, but one of my favorite books of the past few years is English author Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending. I won’t bog you down with a complete plot rundown of the novel, but...
Into the Comic Zone
January 13, 2022 | Jim Angehr
From Aristotle through to the present day, many of the smartest minds in the world have sought to define and describe comedy. And they’ve failed. “Why is funny, in fact, funny?,” is a perennially and perplexingly difficult...
The Year in Me-view
January 6, 2022 | Jim Angehr
A handful of loyal Letters To You readers asked me last month to assemble a “what I’ve read this year” post before the end of 2021. I thought that was a horrible idea, and the answer was “no.” Mainly because I was...
All I Wanted for Christmas
December 22, 2021 | Jim Angehr
Kids, if you’re reading, stop here. But if you insist: Santa’s not real. Sure, Santa’s a nice story and all, yet I wonder why we try to keep the Santa dream alive at all costs, even well past the stage when our once little ones...