Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.