When you think of two things to say, pick your favorite and only say that, my mother suggested once, as a tip to polite social behavior, and the rule was later modified to one in three.
What chimps don’t seem capable of understanding is the state of false belief. They don’t have a theory of mind that accounts for actions driven by beliefs in conflict with reality. And really, who lac...
There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened. The mist lifts and suddenly there we are, my good parents and their...
Theory of mind postulates that, even though these cannot be directly observed, we readily impute mental states to others (and also to ourselves, since the bedrock proposal is that we understand our ow...
The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't
The storm which blew me out of my past eased off.
Tajna je dobrog života u tom da pružiš svoju najbolju utakmicu u svem što radiš. Pa čak i ako bacaš smeće, to moraš izvrsno obaviti.
It was long past time to change the subject. The boy playing the bagpipes is really good, Prudie said.If only she’d said it in French! Trey made a delighted noise. Nessa Trussler. A girl. Or something...
IN MOST FAMILIES, there is a favorite child. Parents deny it and maybe they truly don’t see it, but it’s obvious to the children. Unfairness bothers children greatly. It’s hard to always come in secon...
I wasn't happy, exactly, but I was remembering how happiness felt.
I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.
I don't remember the house so well as the barn, and remember the barn less than the creek, and the creek less than an apple tree my brother and sister would climb to get into or out of their bedrooms....
I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop...
How was your day, Rosie? Dad would ask when he came home from work and I’d tell him it was ebullient. Or limpid. Or dodecahedron. That’s good to hear, he’d say.
Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability.
And this is a small point by comparison, but why do Republicans persist in substituting Democrat, with its rat ending, when Democratic would be correct? Because they want us to know, in every word the...
Solipsism. According to solipsism, reality exists only inside
In Chinese, the character for woman was a man on his knees
You might be shown the photos of the space chimps in their helmets, grinning from ear to ear, and you might feel an urge to tell the rest of your class that chimps grin like that only when they’re fri...
You know how everything seems so normal when you’re growing up, she asked plaintively, and then comes this moment when you realize your whole family is nuts?