I’ve just received some very interesting books, including one called I Don’t: A Contrarian History of Marriage by Susan Squire (thank you). I’m very curious to read what she has to say. I know if I were to pick my own historical model for marriage, it would be some variant of cicisbeismo, but much less [...]

So, I’ve been getting mail. Maybe you’ve been inspired by Belle de Jour/Secret Diary of a Call Girl, or maybe it’s the media surrounding the Ashley/Spitzer spectacle, or maybe it’s Radar’s recent “Secrets of a Hipster Hooker.” You want to be an upscale escort.
I’m not going to encourage it and I’m not going [...]

I didn’t really have a response when I first heard that John Edwards cheated on his wife. Cheating is common enough, and I tend to presume all political leaders have extra-marital affairs. But what’s prompted me to write is the mania that’s followed, the outrage at his bad conduct, the fuss over his attempts to [...]

The beautiful Callie Simms tagged me for a meme on gratitude, a list of five things for which I’m grateful.  There’s too much to list, but for now, at this moment, it’s these:
1) New York, where I can live anonymously without ever feeling alone.
2) Owen, a reader, for his thoughts on PTSD.  He’s made it [...]