For starters, the pilot was not our father. This was the first key difference between automotive travel and flight that I noted at age 4, boarding the airplane that would allegedly rocket us from San...

Communication. Are you for it or againts it? I know the answer should be obvious, but I ask because some men seem against it...just ask women. We women often struggle with communication as well, pa...

Suppose that there was a machine that could give you any experience you desire. What if all the things that you ever wanted could be replicated by a machine so well-tuned that you couldn't tell the d...

We want cars and houses, and the latest look, so we all look the same. We want the biggest muscles, the shiniest jewels, the newest phone, and we want to be most up-to-date on the trendiest shows. W...

For as much as I love nature, it's remarkable that I grew up in a family that didn't spend a lot of time there. We were only mild campers, hikers, and beach-goers. That's not to say we didn't go outd...

You know that sommelier who said the only good wine is the kind you enjoy? The guy who told you not to worry about all those weird words on the bottle, such as "France?" He sure was a nice man, maki...

So I'm waiting at a stoplight when another piece of techno-pop skitters across the car radio, and the notion hits me: is romance dead? The question is soon embedded in my brain. I'm no Cervant....

Hell is other people. Sartre got it, of course. We judge ourselves with the means other people have, and have given us, for judging ourselves. If my relationships are bad, I'm totally dependent on ...

The compulsively clean gentleman insisted I try hydrocolon therapy, claiming that I'm in danger of "autointoxication" (Google it). Though modern medicine has debunked this, there may be a grain of tr...

I don't spend much time at sea--like, practically none--but I'm an explorer. Driving back from a dinner, I pointed at a local casino and said to my date, "We gotta go there at least once, right?" It....