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Forty Is ... An Age At Which People Have Histories And Options. At Thirty, They Had Perhaps Less History. At Fifty, Perhaps Fewer Options.

How Come Pleasure Never Makes It On To... A Dutiful List Of Do's And Don'ts? Doesn't Joy Also Get Soft And Flabby If You Neglect To Exercise It?

Parents Remain Our Touchstones, Fellow Travelers, Even After Death. They Are Both Missing And Present.

I Rewrite A Great Deal. I'm Always Fiddling, Always Changing Something. I'll Write A Few Words - Then I'll Change Them. I Add. I Subtract. I Work And Fiddle And Keep Working And Fiddling, And I Only Stop At The Deadline.

Welfare Is ... The Victim Of National Compassion Fatigue.