It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.

My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

In the end, all solutions are temporary.

March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.