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

We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.

When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.