Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

If the river has a soul, it’s a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form,...

Scott is gone.I’ve had two days with this truth. This truth and me, we’re acquainted now, past the shock of our first unhappy meeting and into the uneasy-cohabitation stage. Its barbs are slightly duller than...

Marry me, Zelda. We’ll make it all up as we go. What do you say?

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

I guess I ought to be aware of what to look for, is all. The signs of true love, I mean. Is it like Shakespeare?” I sat up and took Tootsie’s hands. “You know, is...

… while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn’t...

I’d already sensed the attraction between us. it was apparent from the first time we met. But that sort of attraction was so usual that it didn’t rate serious attention, let alone concern. When the...