Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida

I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.

The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.