What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Fairs are good places to eat, particularly for stand-up eaters--which is one of the kinds of eaters I am, although when I eat standing up away from home I sometimes miss the familiar cool breeze coming from the open refrigerator.

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.