Agents like to recall the great days. Takedown days. The days that lead to the capture or big seizure. Less so of the long days on...

Originally published 2/27/2001 — Record-Journal Writer's Note: As a newspaper journalist early in my career, I wrote "Dancing and...

To the 1983 Science Department of East Lyme Junior High: This was the year my sixth-grade science teacher was being quite literal in his...

Sometimes I sleep twice. I try to trick my wife into thinking we have a normal life and let her fall asleep with me with her. In my last...

On the drives home, I had started making monologues, recorded self-conversations, thoughts on the night, the crazy shit and quiet. The...

For him — God — taking my father, I unleashed nightly in vulgar, seething teeth-clenches, a rage I doled in whispers. I lulled...

We just wrapped up a stakeout on a case I didn’t want to be on. It was my case, my father told me, but he’d still be there. I nodded. I...