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A friend of mine has a vintage Jaguar — a beautiful, impractical thing that he loves the way some men love boats, which is to say expensively and...
A young man bought me a cup of coffee last week. He wanted some career advice, and I never turn down an opportunity to deliver wisdom over a free...
A friend of mine — she’s in her early 30s, no children — was having lunch recently with a friend and that friend’s 3-year-old daughter. At...
A few years ago, a college friend called me on my birthday. He’d been feeling, he said, a little isolated — not lonely exactly, but cut off. His...
When I was in my early twenties, eating alone in a restaurant was fraught with anxiety. Walking in by yourself, being led to a table, sitting down...
About 15 years ago, when I was doing a weekly commentary on a local Los Angeles public radio station, the management hired a professional photographer...