Occupation: Writer Birth: October 25, 1964
Love is a story we tell with another person. It's cocreation through conarration. When you hit bumps in the road and challenges, you write a new chap….
The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I lea….
The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids..
Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the….
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps..
Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause..
One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?.
Love is a balance between independence and interdependence. In love, you want to be independent and interdependent. You want to be a little bit selfi….
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope..
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them..
One of the things I've learned is to be much more open about my frailties and about our failures, because when you show your kids how you can resolve….
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic..
I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection..
It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents ….
Social media is fine, but we need to put the phones down and look somebody in the eye. Talk to your neighbor. Talk to your community. Especially talk….
Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America..
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back ….
Adam and Eve - and especially Eve - are victims of the greatest character assassination the world has ever known. Eve is not secondary. Eve, if anyth….
I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and they can go on their own searches, wa….
When it comes to gender, marriage, family, work, and religion - we once thought of them as being fixed, but they're incredibly fluid. The same is tru….
I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the ….