I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.