While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

There wasn't really one time in my life where I was like, 'I want to be a model!'

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

Babylon, you throne gone down.

Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.