Joe Mercurio is soft-spoken. He will wait for you to finish speaking before taking his turn, pausing a few beats longer in case a dangling thought purls out of you. My introduction to Joe might look odd on the surface, but it couldn’t be more basic — it was as simple as one person reaching ...

I’ve always enjoyed studying logic as a game of sorts. Proof that I’ve never been serious about it is how I’ve lived my life. It’s like me and sea stories: From an early age, I’ve loved reading about ships on the bounding main ... but not enough to want to actually BE on one. If ...

My youngest is curled up with her laptop, angling her head back and forth as she clicks the mouse. The camera is on, and as I walk by, I see that she is virtually trying on glasses. Blessed with better eyesight than her mother, the lenses won’t be for correction; rather, they will reduce the ...

I’m the first to admit that I was a full supporter of bribing my children. If I could get them to clean their rooms or complete a chore list without nagging them, I was ready to celebrate. The nagging took up so much time that the need to eliminate it became a series of consequences and ...