I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist.

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.

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.

I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressedas snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.