Life With Others

Protection is a concept usually overlooked until there is a distinct lack of it, and then it is incredibly evident. Be protectors, men.

Flipping TV channels, I came across a familiar scenario on one show. A woman thought she had a great opportunity (a job); a friend of hers thought he saw red flags and was warning her; she got mad at him for not being “supportive.” Leaving aside who wa …

A couple weeks ago I got a traffic ticket. It was no big deal, you could say — a rolling stop on a right turn, with no other cars or pedestrians in the intersection. Still, I was guilty: There was, to be honest, rather more rolling than stopping going …