Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.

This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.

Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters.

I waited for her to nod before pacing while I bit my lip. That hurt, so I switched to biting my finger nail.

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.

Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.

When I was a little kid, I kind of liked the commercials more than a lot of the stuff on TV. My favorite ones were the Miller Lite ads with all the jocks in them. "Tastes great, less filling."

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.