May Your First Word Be Adventure And

I Grew Up As A Fifth-generation Jew In The American South, At The Confluence Of Two Great Storytelling Traditions. After Graduating From Yale In The 1980s, I Moved To Japan. For Young Adventure Seekers Like Myself, The White-hot Japanese Miracle Held A Similar Appeal As Russia In 1920s Or Paris In The 1950s.

The Way To Tell A Really Big Story, I Think, Is To Tell A Really Small Story.

Moses Became Americas True Founding Father Because He Evangelized Action; He Justified Risk. He Gave Ordinary People The Courage To Live With Uncertainty.

Cancer Is A Passport To Intimacy. It Is An Invitation, Maybe Even A Mandate, To Enter The Most Vital Arenas Of Human Life, The Most Sensitive And The Most Frightening, The Ones That We Never Want To Go To - But When We Do Go There, We Feel Incredibly Transformed.

Adam And Eve - And Especially Eve - Are Victims Of The Greatest Character Assassination The World Has Ever Known. Eve Is Not Secondary. Eve, If Anything, Is The Great Initiator In The Story. She's The First Independent Woman. For Me, Rediscovering That Eve Was The Greatest Bad**s Women Of All Time Was A Revelation.