Orchid Hunting Is A Mortal Occupation.

I Think On A Day-to-day Basis, What Attracts Us In Coexisting With Another Living, Evolving Thing, Is That You Have A Relationship That's Different Than With A Piece Of Furniture. We Experience The Cycle Of Life Through These Other Beings.

On The Very Same Day That I Ordered An Ipad 2, I Went Shopping To Buy Myself A Letter Opener. I Like To Cover All My Bases.

I Teach A Non-fiction Writing Class At New York University, And One Of My Great Pleasures Is Deciding On The Syllabus.

In The Course Of Transferring All My Cds To My Ipod, I Have Found Myself Wandering The Musical Hallways Of My Past And Reacquainting Myself With Music I Haven't Listened To In Years.

The One Thing I've Discovered About Social Media Is That People Love Answering Questions. In Fact, It Sometimes Feels Like At Any Given Moment, Millions Of People Are Online Who Have Been Waiting For Exactly The Question You Fire Off.