Public library, Los Angeles Every day I get multiple emails from various publicists offering me books to review and talk about here on ...

It was, indeed, another day in Paradise. Henry had a four-hour lacrosse camp, so Oliver, his friend Mac, Sophie and I packed up my sexy ...

Pull your old green hat low over your green sunglasses. Ignore the lady in the magenta track suit screaming, "Pick up the goddamn ba...

photo by Jennifer Werndorf (one of my best friends) I was supposed to be landing at Newark airport tonight, be on my way to my cous...

Despite an evening spent enthralled, listening to the Bosnian-American writer  Aleksander Hemon read from his new book,  Book of My Lives...

Odilon Redon, The Birth of Venus, 1912 It's a gray morning in Los Angeles, and I'm lying in bed, nursing a cold and reading. So...

Civil War family via Dream Dogs Art I never have much to say on these holidays that memorialize soldiers and war and killing and dying....

This is the book Sedaris recommended this year -- a tradition  on his tour Yes. I laughed so hard that not only my stomach ached, but ...

I reached deep into parenting patience last night and spent about one half of an hour looking at Oliver's Wacky Pack collection. I...

via   Moon to Moon a wild, cosmic photo posted every day by NASA: something to eat while you're watching Season 2 of Down...

Yes, I've been reading, albeit cursorily, about the folks "occupying Wall Street," and I have a neighbor friend who's a...

I am stuck in the Washington Dulles airport for four hours. The name of the above pictured store is AMERICA and is staffed by a polite, yo...

I made two cakes today, a lemon cake with lemon frosting and tiny little squares of candied lemon peel on top. Just before the customer came...