The newspapers lately have been full of doom and gloom. Where I live, the housing market has collapsed and foreclosures have skyrocketed. Interest rates are up, and the price of fuel is soaring. Th...

My mother played just one April Fool’s joke in all her life. Dad had done something to make her mad--nobody remembers what--and Mom wanted some big-time payback. So one Friday evening when Dad....

I wish I didn’t do it. You wish you didn’t do it. But we all do it. And it isn’t the devil making us do it. We are all guilty of doing the once-over. It’s the instant judg...

I have to be honest with you: I’m getting tired of sustainability. It’s not that I want all the fish to die or for there to be more hurricanes, but--how can I say this without sounding l..

When shooting some recent website content, I and my crew were blessed with one of the most perfect Malibu days. The sun glistened off the water, sparkling like tiny diamonds. And my quite-famous pho....

The Washoe Indians called it "Strong Water," but Mark Twain called it "Grasshopper Soup." As mystical as the exact connotation of the name is the overwhelming beauty of this gap betwe....

So it was a milestone birthday last month, and I have been thinking about age...my age, men’s ages, aging. I have no trouble with it (thank goodness--why worry about something about which I can....

Larochefoucauld said that often our cirtues are merely vices in disguise. Altruism can make us feel good about ourselves, but self-amiration is far from admirable. Kindness is a composite quality in....

I chose my man carefully before trying this...not every man is capable of being passive, even if only for a little while. I built up our sex pattern slowly...he came into our place after work, and wh..

Dresden. in the beautiful Elbe valley, has UNESCO World Heritage status, after earning its place in history. It’s a mostly-Baroque architectural jewel. I was pleasantly surprised to see the re.