Free Range Kid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When, regardless of the setting, people hear that I’m an actress, they usually have four comments that follow each other in [...]

Dear Grown-Up Nora: Lots of time has passed since my last assessment of you, which was when you (we) were eight. [...]