Columns & Collected Essays

I don’t know about your family, but in mine, we like to use sayings. Sayings are efficient. They cut through the specific and hit on...

In the weeks leading up to Groupon’s IPO – which had its incredibly successful public debut Friday – there has been much talk about the...

“Where are you coming from?” My friend Amy asked as we chatted briefly in town. I was dripping sweat from head to toe. “Lemme guess? ...

On a chilly weekend last October, my family and I headed to Providence, Rhode Island for something called WaterFire. (When translated...

My 9-year-old son, Andrew, recently went on a mini-sleep away trip with his day camp. He was gone for a total of 5 days, which is hardly...

When my husband, Brett, and I first fell in love, we were really in love. You know what I mean: madly, blindly, passionately, blah,...