As I child I imagined that childhood was a preview for adulthood. Everything would simply increase in quantity — freedom, [...]

I once saw a statistic on Instagram—so you know it’s credible—that 85 percent of the things we worry about never [...]

There are few things that the world agrees on, but I think that a fairly universal opinion held by all [...]

At first, I didn’t believe it. One day I was arguing with my mother-in-law about where you place soup spoons [...]

I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe festival, where I was putting on a show I wrote. It’s the largest [...]

A hiking boot tramples a violet, apologizes, and then has the naivete to think that is an end of the [...]

Let me turn the clock back four months, to a midwinter day in January. It’s a snowy morning in New [...]

America is obsessed with “National __ Day” celebrations. When I first heard of one, National Ice Cream Day, I thought, [...]

The conversation begins this way, more or less predictably: “And how does that make you feel?” “Well, obviously not good.” [...]

To: Eat the Cake First and Save the Frosting, the Best, for Last, to the attention of the party chairperson [...]

It hit me recently that while travelers and bloggers who fall for Italy  can’t get enough of conveying their rapture, [...]

I wish I could tell you just which Los Angeles freeway I was on when, gridlocked, I took to pondering [...]