A finished person is a boring person..

Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged inves….

[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my g….

I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's ….

what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things..

One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the ye….

Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our ….

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time..

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific..

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me..

On the other hand, I think that Governor Romney has to worry that his turnout is going to be low, that he is not going to bring out the evangelicals,….

All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble..

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet..

high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later..

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America..

It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen ….

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If….

Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls t….

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before..

Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life..

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description..