Bob Brody: How I kept Christmas from getting lost in translation
After meeting my neighbor in Italy, I learned how people from different cultures can communicate with each other.
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Bob Brody: What my grandfather’s death taught me about ‘the end’
Every Thanksgiving serves to remind me of one of the lessons I took from my grandfather.
Bob Brody: Deafness didn’t stop my mother from learning the piano
The first time I heard about my mother taking dancing and music lessons, it struck me as strange because she was deaf.
Bob Brody: My wife and I soon will celebrate 45 years of marriage. Many baby boomers haven’t been as lucky.
My wife and I are about to celebrate 45 years of marriage, but there is a significant divorce trend among baby boomers. Here's what I found.
Bob Brody: The lessons of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ come to light over lunch in Queens
"Every night this husband and wife would argue with each other," my friend Ron, a former police officer, was telling me over lunch just before Christmas a few years ago....
Bob Brody: I didn’t expect grazing donkeys to teach me about the sweetness of doing nothing
Of all the sources from which I might have expected to draw inspiring philosophical lessons about how to live, I would definitely have put donkeys at the bottom of my...
Bob Brody: How to get off to the right start with your new grandchild
More than four years ago, I became a grandfather. Later this year, I'll become a grandfather again. The question is, what have I learned from my first stint in this...
Bob Brody and Carol Everhart Roper: A surgeon drove all night to make an emergency house call 600 miles away
The Saturday night before last Thanksgiving, Dr. Alfredo F. Gurmendi, 57, pulled his Toyota onto the interstate in Dallas heading west. More than three hours later, just outside of Abilene,...
Bob Brody: Why I still ‘like’ Facebook, even though everyone else sort of hates it
According to some critics, Facebook is responsible for almost every evil ever invented. The social media platform, under the corporate parent Meta, violates our privacy, sells our personal information to...
Bob Brody: I was driven to hear everything I could for my mother
In the first year of her life, my mother could hear. She could hear her mother whispering words to her, her father arriving home from the office through the front...