2015 - Joshua Wilner

Things To Remember: Experiences Trumps ‘Things’

I once asked my son if I could call him Wilner the younger. He asked why and I said because Pliny the Elder was taken. That …

Saturday afternoon I sat between my father and my son and watched The Millenium Falcon fly again. My first thought was "there …

Some years ago another boy and I exchanged some words and I told him that he didn't want to make my dial turn the wrong …

Another Chanukah has come and gone and here at Castle Wilner the estate grounds are slowly returning to normal. Unlike years past …

I am a 46 year-old father typing on an old HP laptop while listening to Bob Dylan sing Tangled Up In Blue. Clad in my finest …

I don't support establishing a database of Muslim Americans or saying that we should automatically bar all Muslims from entering …

Fifteen years ago my grandfathers sat me down to share some thoughts with me about being a father. They took me aside and told me …

I try to avoid the malls around the holidays for the same reason that many of you do. Too many people, too much chaos and too …

It is Thanksgiving afternoon and I am stealing a few minutes to do some writing and to flip through some of the online ads about …

Around twenty years ago I told someone the smartest thing they had ever said to me was they didn't understand what I was talking …