Things we have learned: Armed civilians do not and cannot stop mass shootings.
- The mixed-faith crowd of Egyptians who defended the local synagogue.
- Some books to look forward to in 2013.
- Reasons that shopping and fish don’t mix.
- “The future is a work in progress” and other musings on apocalypti.
- So why would anybody want to read your correspondence posthumously?
- The year that was and the year that wasn’t.
- Christmas Day in Newtown.