The music still came from the house. It was past midnight. What kind of old lady plays rock music after midnight? One who still plays old vinyl records. One who keeps a weird tombstone in her wooded b...
The media, an entity with the collective attention span of a Twinkie-filled two-year-old, immediately focused on this shiny new toy, kicking the old one under the bed. Carlson
The lacrosse game took place in the optimistically dubbed SuperDome, an air-inflated sports facility made from some sort of pliable material. Thomas was playing in an indoor league for the winter seas...
Some people claim that money is the root of all evil. Could be. Others say that money can't buy you happiness. That may be true. But if you handle it right, money buys you freedom and time, and those...
On the news, the neighbors are always like, 'Gee, I didn‘t know that nice man was chopping up little kids—he always seemed so polite.‘ But you go back, you ask their schoolteachers, you ask their chil...
Myron likes to say that even the ugliest truth is better than the prettiest of lies.
Myron lay sprawled next to a knee-knockingly gorgeous brunette clad only in a Class-B-felony bikini, a tropical drink sans umbrella in one hand, the aqua clear Caribbean water lapping at his feet, the...
Manhattan scene—you are surrounded and yet you find solace; you find isolation in the tornado of people.
Life, he suspected, hinges too often on chance. We all want to convince ourselves that it is about hard work and education and perseverance, but the truth is, life is much more about the fickle and th...
Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay
I look at the helpless bundle in the crib and she looks up at me and I wonder what I would notdo to protect her. I would lay down my life in a second. And truth be told, if push came to shove, I would...
I look at her, then at Tasha, and I feel the wondrous blend of bliss and fear. They--bliss and fear--are constant companions. Rarely does one venture out without the other.
Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
Hope could be a wonderful thing. But hope could crush you anew every single day. Hope could be the cruelest thing in the world.
He traveled back again, to when she was that adorable teenager dominating center court, and his favorite Yiddish expression came back to him in a rush: Man plans, God laughs. This was not a kind laugh...
Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.
God, she loved this kid. Wendy had one of those waves, the ones that sneak up on parents and crush them and make them just want to wrap their arms around their kid and never let him go.
Friedman, Rick Friedman (the two Friedmans are not related—at least, I don’t think they are), Selina Walker, Ben Sevier, Christine Ball, Jamie Knapp, Carrie Swetonic, Stephanie Kelly, Lisa Erbach Vanc...
Chaz’s shift was over, so Kat met him at his apartment in the ritzy Lock-Horne Building on Park Avenue and 46th Street. Kat had come to an office party here two years ago when Stacy was dating the pla...
She looks really happy.Everyone looks happy on Facebook.I know, right? What's up with that?