You know how I'm neurotic? Maybe a little paranoid with a tendency to obsess a little? Do you remember that about me? Miss it? Well, I'm happy to oblige with a dose for your summer: here's how that's working itself... (August 24, 2010 continues...)

She's here. Three weeks ago today, Astrid Zealand suddenly joined our family. 6 lbs., 7.7 ounces and three and a half weeks early. We couldn't be more delighted to have her.... (April 20, 2010 continues...)

OK, so if someone asked you, "Do you want to go to the Friars Club for dinner? It's fish night, so there'll be 90-year-olds on oxygen wearing lobster bibs in the corner," what would you say? You'd say, "Hell yes, I want to go to the Friars Club! Let me grab my chest-high pants and I'll meet you at the front door!" (February 11, 2010 continues...)

You know how Iran and North Korea keep putting hikers and journalists in jail for so-called "border incursions" when they step across some imaginary line in the dust right about where the the lunatics in charge think their territory starts?... (January 14, 2010 continues...)

I know you've been up all night wondering how the weekend baking went, so let's get right to it and relieve your anxiety so you can get back to wrapping up the cat. It's hard to believe that as... (December 14, 2009 continues...)