Charles: Ah, there’s the rub
My daughter, the light of my life, gifted me with a massage last week. She got one for herself as well, because she knew I needed it (less than two weeks after laparoscopic... Read more.
Charles: Who’s watching you?
Raise your hand if something like this has happened to you: A few years ago, I developed pain in my right heel. It was worse in the morning, but after a few minutes... Read more.
Charles: This is my America
Last week I was on my way to one of my morning dance classes, when as I headed down the main street in my East Boston neighborhood, I saw a man lying in the street... Read more.
On immigration and children, have we lost our heart? Soul? Mind?
Human beings are not illegal. It also is not illegal or criminal to be black, brown, yellow, red — or poor. It’s not illegal to seek asylum from violence,... Read more.
Charles: Summer of irrelevance
Are we all graduated out yet? Have we had our fill of speakers telling their audience, be they kindergarten, middle schoolers, high schoolers or college students,... Read more.
Charles: Thank a teacher
My apologies to Willie and Waylon (and, of course, songwriter Sharon Vaughn), but my heroes have always been teachers. And they still are, it seems. I’m an... Read more.
Charles: Wardrobe dysfunction
On a recent weekday afternoon, I scoured my closet in search of something to wear to work. I have a grownup job here. I do not wear grownup clothes. As I searched... Read more.
Charles: Walking in DACA shoes
My parents grew up in the south. They were brought up in the era of the Depression, and separately came north, settled in a city in the midwest, met, married and... Read more.
Charles: The art of letting go
I’m fairly new to the practice of yoga. A few months ago, after more than a year of only using my YMCA membership for the occasional hour-long walk on a treadmill,... Read more.
Open your eyes, men
Gentlemen, welcome to our parallel universe. Yes, you, the 49 percent of the population, who apparently has been unaware of what 51 percent of the population (women)... Read more.