It's early but I'm pleased so far.

I've been working on my leg strength.

In northern California, it gets pretty cold, pretty rainy but I don't know about this cold. But right now, my mind isn't on the weather. It's getting everything down that I need to get down.

Loneliness is an unhappy compound of having lost one's point of reference, of suffering the fate of individual and collective discontinuity and of living through or dying from a crisis of identity to the point of alienation of one's self.

The father and Ms. Ventura has indicated no one else know about it, so the pressure on that young girl had to be immeasurable.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.