When You Live Alone, You Can Be

Parents Remain Our Touchstones, Fellow Travelers, Even After Death. They Are Both Missing And Present.

There Is So Much More Information About The Scientific World Than There Was A Generation Ago That We Have All Increased Our Opportunities For Ignorance. There Are More Things Not To Know. ... The Machinery That We Deal With Is So Much More Complex That It Is Possible To Become Dysfunctional At A Much Higher Level Of Performance.

You Can Teach Someone Who Cares To Write Columns, But You Can’t Teach Someone Who Writes Columns To Care.

We Each Have A Litany Of Holiday Rituals And Everyday Habits That We Hold On To, And We Often Greet Radical Innovation With The Enthusiasm Of A Baby Meeting A New Sitter. We Defend Against It And - Not Always, But Often Enough - Reject It. Slowly We Adjust, But Only If We Have To.

What He Labels Sexual, She Labels Harassment.