Author: Kevin O'Toole

Look at the trees. Twenty-five years ago, the oak trees were not there. On this 25th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, I am struck by not just what was lost, but by what has been planted,...

In the days after the September 11, 2001, attacks, theaters across New York City reopened and audiences slowly returned. One small off-Broadway musical, The Fantasticks, became a refuge of sorts because of its opening song, “Try to Remember.” It begins:...

In Major League Baseball, only 18 players have spent an entire career of 20 years or more exclusively with a single team. Cal Ripken, Robin Yount, Craig Biggio, Tony Gwynn, and Derek Jeter come to mind. Of the tens of...

I’m sure, like most of the readers, we’ve all been breathlessly watching Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. Besides learning that orcas are incredibly ferocious and stunningly intelligent creatures (spoiler alert: they travel in packs and hunt great white sharks...

I was recently watching a documentary on the disastrous end of the $612 million cruise ship, Costa Concordia, and was a tad surprised by the sad details of this epic disaster. I was aware at the time when the ship...