This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

I write to express and I shop to destress

Don’t hang onto anything too tightly – all things must change and you have to allow room for them to grow and blossom.

Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections.

Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.

Luck is what you have left over after you give ioo percent.

He stepped closer to her. "Thank you for saving me," he said softly, and wrapped the bones of his arms around her. Valkyrie smiled and hugged him back.

Happiness never decreased by being shared.

WFMU is so experimental that you can go hours without hearing something that resembles an actual song.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.