Are you as happy as I am about the discovery of a living Ivory-billed woodpecker in an Arkansan swamp? On Thursday I was walking into Pilates class, talking on my cell phone, when my mom told me the news. It was a "where were you when" moment. They f

Maybe Isaac has a brilliant future as a theatrical or film director. He's been setting up brief skits for us to perform, and then making us carry them out according to his rigid expectations. If we are not evocative enough, or don't do it with enough

Yesterday the New York Times ran an obituary for author Frank Conroy, who died this week at 69. He wrote the wonderful memoir Stop-Time that has been such an important book to generations of writers and headed up the powerful Iowa Writers Workshop. I

Today I am hobbling around on a dislocated toe-- an old "football injury" from my crazy college days-- that I reinjured yesterday and still have not been able to repair. Also it's raining in that cold and dreary way, all the more dismal because yeste

A&D Diaper Ointment makes a great hair gel. Just apply generously and sculpt. As an added benefit, it's difficult to wash out, so your new look lasts through bath after bath.

I'm doing pretty well now, one full week post-op. My nausea is completely gone, and I have rejoined the world of eating. My pain quotient it very mild now, only sort of a stitch-in-the-side feeling when I inhale. My residual issues then are two fold