The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment, ... read more

The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment, ... After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons.

When you're out there hiking with the girls at 5:30 and you see the other girls working out just as read more

When you're out there hiking with the girls at 5:30 and you see the other girls working out just as hard as you are and panting and puffing ... you feel like you have to go on because they're going on.

[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested read more

[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested tables, ... If you're four persons as opposed to two, my first option would be to give it to four. But if I'm not busy I'll accommodate two.

I am always looking for an opportunity to compete personally. I feel this sets a good example, and I try read more

I am always looking for an opportunity to compete personally. I feel this sets a good example, and I try to lead by example when at all possible.

We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed.

We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed.

In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all read more

In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all going to decline within a decade of each other.

We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in read more

We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pasture near the old greenhouse and moved it closer to the house.

First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination read more

First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination you would have to pass, till you were scared.

My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the read more

My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.