Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.

I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.

One of the things I've learned is to be much more open about my frailties and about our failures, because when you show your kids how you can resolve conflict in your life in real time, you're giving them confidence that when they have conflicts, they can push through them.