I do word and number puzzles while I watch baseball on TV: New York Times crosswords and acrostics, sudokus, KenKens. My baseball savvy and Yankees keenness come in handy on the clues that lead to A-Rod, Mo Rivera, Yogi Berra, …
I grew up worrying—I learned from a pro. My mother, an incessant worrywart, wore the moniker proudly, as if it bestowed legitimacy and dignity to her proclivity/affliction. She worried about my father, a morose drinker and sometimes philanderer. She worried …