Columns & Collected Essays

If you are anything like me (and you are, my dear, you are), then you loved Candace Bushnell’s wildly successful...

Hanukkah begins this year at sundown on December 8.  This seems early to me, furthering the cultural belief system that Jewish holidays...

There is something about my seven-year-old daughter, Zoe, that makes people want to buy her stuff.  Is she cute?  Sure.  Is she funny? ...

The other day, as I was driving out of the CVS parking lot, I saw my friend Leigh walking into the store. I waved and slowed the car. She...

It’s no secret that I love to spin.  I joined the indoor cycling movement in the late 1990’s, mostly because pedaling fast to loud music...

My father-in-law thinks he’s a pirate. It started innocently enough, looking back.  My 10-year-old son, Andrew, and his grandfather,...