I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

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.

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.

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

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