As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver. Still, the cleanse has recalibrated my definition of a splurge.

Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't get it.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver. Still, the cleanse has recalibrated my definition of a splurge.