More on luck

Just two days after my Game Plan column about luck went live on FoxBusiness.com, The New York Times ran a piece on the front page of the Sunday Business section called What’s Luck Got to Do with It? Essentially it’s a study-based version of my large...

Just lucky — not

Calling this a pet peeve is a little strong, but let’s say I find it very misguided when I feel I’ve accomplished something and someone tells me how lucky I am. Once I got going on the topic, I couldn’t stop. Friday’s Game Plan: Don’t...

Paper handshake

There came a point in my work as a columnist writing about ‘how to live life’ that I realized I was attracting some really cool kindred spirits into my sphere to interview and spotlight. Deborah Hutchison of A Sane Approach is one of those. I let her...

Quotable

When I was young, younger than I am now, I started to write about my own life and I came to see that this act saved my life. When I heard about my brother’s illness and his dying, I knew, instinctively, that to understand it, or to make an attempt at...

Next up, Jamaica

Very moved by my first exposure to Jamaica Kincaid. Reading My Brother for my Women Write Their Lives class at NYU (after Woolf and Ernaux) and what I find most impressive is that she got out of her native Antigua and found a better life here. What a will and a steely...