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The last thing I want to do after hearing a few hours of speeches from the DNC--or the RNC--is to be told what to think by the...

Oh, and then I stepped outside--mid-laundry--and saw the second full moon for August. What a shimmer of blonde and silver, what cheek to...

I do. I take umbrage at James Taylor's vapid lyric "The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time." It seems important to disagree...

Just having bought this new/old house--what I've come to think of as a piece of history--a real vacation was out of the question. But...

At a used bookstore on New York's lower east side I was amused to see that the shelf labelled 'Erotica' was just one above the shelf...

She is understandably misinterpreted, an eccentric who likes her cocktails. This means she’s always at Maggie’s, the little bar we all go...

The sunflowers wave their heads around like girls and boys with unkempt hair and short attention spans. 'look, here! look, there!' they...

I suffer from a predictable francophilia. It's true. I'm a sucker for the language. Not only does it sound good, it feels good to speak....

If there is anything missing in the vitriolic debates about the relative worth/worthlessness of religion, it’s the question of the...

Okay, not. Six weeks into this lovely, historic house and there have been bats. Five bats in three weeks, in fact. This troubled me so...