My day began earlier than usual. 5:30 a.m. to be exact. "Oh, no," I moaned, shutting off the ill timed and persistent buzz of the obviously wrongly-set clock. The dog kept sleeping, snuffl....

For billions of years, life and its attendant intelligence have been slowly evolving--changing, adapting, accumulating abilities that have only recently resulted in the human mind. This evolution of...

I don’t remember how I used to look before surgery. I don’t remember my face or body before the cocktail of cosmetic treatments that has, surely, changed it for ever. Before the fillers,....

At my 10th college reunion, I renewed an old friendship with a classmate. Allison and I met as 17-year-old freshmen at the initial welcome luncheon, held in the huge gymnasium. The dean of students ...

As of this week, I’ve been to Beijing 3 times; the food I ate both times was amazing, but a question quickly arose: why was there no Chinese cheese? After all, the region is surrounded by dair...

The kids swarmed around him, many of them not even old enough to walk, so they crawled across the room on their knees and bellies. Sitting down in the chair provided, he smiled behind his fake beard ...

I’m a humble girl, really. I don’t obsess over riches or fame or a Lamborghini with 57 speakers and a wet bar...in fact, this coming Christmas, there are only 3 things I want. And this y...

So I was in Japan briefly this week...and I just had to peek at them while wandering during some free time. They're all over the country, secreted away in bland, low-rise buildings in nondescript, ou....

I understand. I really do. You start dating. You fall in love. You stumble out of the bar together each night and slouch into the coffee shop arm in arm each morning. Then, one day, you catch sig.... .

It turns out, running is hard. A bike racing friend of mine, when asked about running, said: "There are 2 reasons to run: cops and bears." This used to be my motto as well, until recently....