Recently, the New York Times examined one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century – climate change. And then …
Aging
10 Best Reasons to Turn 40
Age is relative, and you’re only as old as you feel. Right? Certainly, but society sure has a way of making you question…
10 Best Reasons to Turn 30
In 2009 alone, 4.2 million Americans turned 30. And while some of the latest additions to the fourth decade of living ma…
Shoulder Pads + Soul Mates: A Letter to My 20 Year Old Self
Last year, I turned 40. Impossibly surreal. Mystically bizarre. Just yesterday I was fleeing high school, with shoulder …
What the Male Midlife Crisis Looks Like in 2010
You call it a crisis. He calls it a quest. As euphemisms go, his term is a far more romantic description of the turmoil …
Uprooted by Gray: Distinguished or Extinguished?
You awake one day and witness the encroachment. It’s not as invasive as bed bugs or a foreclosure, but not as plea…
The Neck and Décolletage – A Tale of Sexy
How many of you moisturize and exfoliate your neck? I don’t, and apparently I am as foolish as this surfer who rec…
The Diorama of Ordinary Life: A Meditation on the Need for Travel
A view from sailing into Port At Fael, the Azores. As I meet my middle thirties, I’m finding the lifelong, insatia…