Fruits and vegetables. They are your friend.

The flax seed is a good fat. So are nuts. The omega-3 fatty acids, every cell in your body needs them.

It's food that your body can do something with other than turn it into fat.

You want your food to work for you -- to make you healthier.

Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with something approaching awe. She has never, over the years, written the way any of her contemporaries have.

Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. For me, it's 'The Cricket in Times Square', written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams.