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We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week in Paris that...
This week, on a Zoom call with some colleagues, I told the group that I have been traveling around Europe and the Caucasus since May. One of my...
On a clear day, from the right spot on the Maltese coast, you can see Tunisia. It’s about 200 miles away — closer than Los Angeles is to San...
If you’re over 40, none of the following will require explanation. It’s literary canon, etched into your memory over countless summer days...
A friend of mine has a vintage Jaguar — a beautiful, impractical thing that he loves the way some men love boats, which is to say expensively and...
A young man bought me a cup of coffee last week. He wanted some career advice, and I never turn down an opportunity to deliver wisdom over a free...
A friend of mine — she’s in her early 30s, no children — was having lunch recently with a friend and that friend’s 3-year-old daughter. At...
A few years ago, a college friend called me on my birthday. He’d been feeling, he said, a little isolated — not lonely exactly, but cut off. His...
When I was in my early twenties, eating alone in a restaurant was fraught with anxiety. Walking in by yourself, being led to a table, sitting down...
About 15 years ago, when I was doing a weekly commentary on a local Los Angeles public radio station, the management hired a professional photographer...