Poetry is like a bird it ignores all frontiers.
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing....
In New York if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at...
The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's...
The truth is I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then the...
A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options....
Ah the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes...
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale New York society woman best known...
My personality when tasked with creating meals goes something like this: Is...
I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning even...
There's already a marriage clock a career clock a biological clock....
I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit a learning disability...
I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but well it doesn't...
If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on...
Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres I don't take...
The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of...
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to...
Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel...
It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually...
I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not...
Some of the writers I admire who seem very very funny and very emotional to...
Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we...
I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get...
I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and...
For me titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough...
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist and my father an...
The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits the...
The Queen of Crafts herself Martha Stewart and I have the same birthday. I...
I'm a summer baby so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
Since graduation I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper four...
You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment...
