“The memories—because I was a privileged child in many ways—were not unpleasant. I never heard my parents fight, for instance. They didn’t raise their voices toward one another (and rarely toward anyone else).…

“We then come to what is, for me, the most astonishing passage in the whole book. Harry says he has no problem with the concept of monarchy, despite his treatment, despite the ill-gotten…

“Early on, in our stay, we were a bit less wary of the challenges presented by driving on Serifos. Approaching the main habitation, Hora, from the east, and thinking to avoid driving first…

“Produced, arranged, and created by Gene Purling, the former genius behind the innovative vocal group The Hi-Los, comes ‘The Singers Unlimited Christmas.’ Created in 1967, The Singers Unlimited comprised four members (Bonnie Herman,…

“I spent four months studying in Israel at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, which is beautifully situated atop a hill on the southern edge of Jerusalem, overlooking the Judean Hills and Bethlehem. It was…

“I suspect I appreciate At the Existentialist Café more than most readers. After all, my expansive reading of existential philosophers during the decade of the 1990s was critical to the development of my own, personal…

“I know Mykonos like the back of my hand, and many other destinations in Greece well, both on the mainland and throughout the islands, but Serifos, in all her bright, stony splendor, remains…

“As a former reading tutor at the local elementary school, I taught children as varied as the boy who read WWII as World War Eleven and the girl who correctly multiplied 17 x…

“The tragedy of Harry, Diana, Charles Windsor, and Camilla Parker-Bowles points up the pernicious effects on people’s lives of the institution of monarchy. Edward VIII could not marry a divorcée and remain king.…

“Shortly before we met, my bestie and roommate, Mercedes, started making noise about wanting to get a dog—a decision about which I was truly ambivalent. While we had had a dog for a…