Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.

Testosterone does not have to be toxic.

The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.

Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You have time for your friendships and you appreciate them in ways that you didn't before.

Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.