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Monday: From the get-go, the world was my oyster. Woke up with a "seize the day!" mentality that never waned. Got in a good workout, ate a hearty b...

Remember that time you sauntered by a vegan restaurant only to be blown away by the overpowering, totally tantalizing smell of extra-firm tofu waft...

That crack I made to a neighbor about him being next in line for the "Dumbest Human Being On The Planet" award was a tad much, I know. Likewise, me...

(1) Gaining a Step: It all starts with baby steps, that magical moment when a child--a year old, give or take--having gone from crawling to a full ...

Right from the beginning you realized this job interview was different. And, yeah, not in a good way. Sure, the guy behind the desk seemed pleasant...

After a whirlwind four-week trip to Italy with over a dozen destinations followed by the super long flight back to L.A. (abetted by a 6-hour delay ...

Note: I'm presently vacationing in Italy (just leaving Bologna for 4 days in Lake Como) so I'm recalling another 40-year-old piece from 1984 that I...

Note: I'm presently on vacation in Italy (right around now finishing up a week in Sicily and soon heading for Capri).  Below is a piece I had publi...

In Germany it's called "Stille Post". In Turkey, it goes by "kulaktan kulağa". The moniker in France is "téléphone arabe" whereas in Finland the na...

I could feel her looking me up and down through the lenses of her designer Ray Bans (worth $145) as I purchased a Caffe Mocha Grande (worth $4.65) ...

This piece is for all you parents out there who've miraculously endured the hapless journey of raising teenagers. And while there's an astonishing ...

The caveman years, they couldn't have been easy, right? And that's if you were lucky enough to score a cave. More often than not, these paleolithic...