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.

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

I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

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

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.