Dating in your 40’s is weird. Really weird. It is, as I’ve said before, as awkward and angst-laden as when you’re 14, but with higher...

As I’ve discussed a zillion times, I was raped the summer after I graduated from high-school. Not just raped, but stalked, so it was...

I love lard. I love everything about lard. It is my sacred secret for everything from perfect pie to insanely soft skin. Someone once...

I was a little surprised when I ran across this article in Salon about abortion as a Twitter meme. It appears that in the wake of Dr....

I’ve been thinking a lot about brains these days. Partly because of my own injured brain and the impact it has had on my life so far....

There are people we admire, maybe even aspire to be like. Then there are those we actually resemble, in action and deed anyway. I’d like...

I’ve heard lots of definitions for the word entrepreneur. Most of them involve things about risk-taking, innovation, leadership and the...

I can’t think about  Tyler Clementi without feeling nauseous, tight-chested and watery-eyed. I can’t find words to explain the myriad...

When I was 20 or 21, I set off to aimlessly traipse around Europe alone for a while. I’ve mentioned this trip before, when I wrote about...

Tall Dark & Dreamy was wearing nothing but a towel the other night, as he stood in his kitchen, me seated at the counter, while we drank...

I was having a drink the other night with one of those dreamy, tall, dark and handsome men that could make a woman agree to anything. We...

When I was in high school, back in the days of the mixed-tape, my friend Garth made me a tape of the Rolling Stone’s album Hot Rocks. He...

Today is the 90th anniversary of the 19th amendment, the one that gave women the right to vote. While it seems utterly bizarre to me that...

I got myself in trouble the other night, just by talking. (Which is how I usually get myself in trouble. I must learn to keep my thoughts...

Twenty-three years ago – when I was 17 and had just graduated from high-school – someone broke into my house while I was sleeping, came...

Chemistry is weird. In school, we’re shown all these charts and formulas and led to believe that there is some actual science involved in...

For those of you not playing along at home, I have a badly broken neck. (Because, you know, there is such thing as a goodly broken neck?)...

Not long ago, I found myself at a party discussing the meaning of the word “love” with a truly lovely friend of mine. It is a word with...