I've always had a certain facility with words.

The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child's falling. This often makes them forget to comment on other aspects of the child's development, like why he is not yet talking or is still wearing diapers. Some grandmothers will spend an entire meal peering beneath the table and saying, "Is that thing steady?" rather than, "Have you had a doctor look at that left hand?

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

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.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.