When I was six, I remember holding chapter books like my older friends did and skimming the words on the pages, pretending to be as...

My father started driving a cab in the 1970s, 10 or so years before I was born. He learned the city like the back of his hand, knowing...

I wasn't too interested in math (at least not in the way the schools taught it) but reading, writing, and spelling came naturally to me....

I was mute. My grandpa was deaf. There are different ways to communicate. The lore went that my grandfather became deaf as a teenager...