Allison Piepmeier, a brilliant academic writer friend of mine, and the mother of the incomparable Maybelle, had a piece published in the  Ne...

The beautiful memoir The Boy in the Moon, by Ian Brown, has won a place in the New York Times' annual 10 Best Books of 2011. I wr...

Yosemite, 2011 I am grateful to read Nicholas Kristof's editorial in yesterday's  New York Times titled Are We Getting Nicer? ...

via Gojee.com I'm having a salty dog. Remember last week's post? I wrote about Gail Collins and her brilliantly funny posts ...

via Drudge From here on out, I'm going to read Gail Collins and participate in the game that I read about somewhere on the internet...

I'll direct you to an article in The New York Times that strikes fear into the heart of those of us who parent and love a person with d...

I'm hard put to post anything at all these days as I'm barely afloat what with starting up a cake business, reviewing grants for the...