Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents, and a record number of people in their sixties have kids who may still depend upon them.

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

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

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."