Children are wonderful when they get you involved in things outside your usual existence. I got home from work last night to discover that a candidate for Parliament was dropping by our house -- and I had a grocery delivery scheduled for the same time....

I stopped by to see my friend Liza Cirlot Looser in Jackson, Mississippi, last week. We met while working at an ad agency 25 years ago. Liza went on to start her own very successful agency while we were housemates. There was a tiny room in our house...

I just had a phone call that my husband's Blackberry, with all his work files and emails on it, had been found in the middle of a highway in Luton. A taxi driver called us because she had been called by the man who found it. He picked the last number...

I went to pick up a new cat to foster in our house last night and stopped off for some milk at the supermarket. Then I noticed this delicious food item for sale for a pound: British people will apparently eat ANYTHING! Postscript I put this picture...

I am following the latest child-abuse saga in the Catholic Church with interest. I read a most interesting article in Salon that I thought you might like to read too: "When you're one of the most powerful institutions in the world and you've got an...