Slowly We Adjust, But Only If We

Forty Is ... An Age At Which People Have Histories And Options. At Thirty, They Had Perhaps Less History. At Fifty, Perhaps Fewer Options.

When Speech Is Divorced From Speaker And Word From Meaning, What Is Left Is Just Ritual, Language As Ritual.

Today, Much Of Journalism And Politics Are In A Kind Of Collusion To Oversimplify And Personalize Issues. No Room For Ambivalence. Plenty Of Room For The Personal Attack.

The Central Struggle Of Parenthood Is To Let Our Hopes For Our Children Outweigh Our Fears.

Instant Opinion Is An Oxymoron. You Don't Get Real Opinions In An Instant. You Get Reactions.