Philip Ammerman

My youngest daughter was born some 17 years ago, making her a strong member of Generation Z. She is sophisticated, hard-working, socially attuned and very polite. So polite, that I had for some time become aware that my more memorable 54-year-old utterings were met with a polite but amused incomprehension.   For example, when I rolled out my Germanic accent to say:   “I’ll be back”   or   “Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentation of their vimen”  

For those of you parents of a certain age who watched Disney’s 2007 movie, Ratatouille, there is a scene towards the end where the food...

"The great liberation for me is to know that we are insignificant, that finally it’s all a dream within a dream. Look at this moment. The...