Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.

Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.

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

Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.