Remember in my last post, when I oh-so-wisely proclaimed the word "never" should be banished from your vocabulary? You probably even believed me, didn't you? Hey, don't feel bad -- even I believed me, and I'm the earth's largest skeptic. Well, like the idiot that can't seem to learn...

As I reached out to shake Justin Taylor's hand at the PEN America Awards in New York recently, I couldn't help but notice that he was carrying a slim, tomato red volume under one arm. When I inquired about it, his response was that it was an anthology...

I'm dating a younger man.

That's right--I'm officially a cliché.

He's the Smith Jared to my Samantha, the Ashton to my Demi, the Tim Robbins to my Susan Sarandon . . . But I'm getting ahead of myself. I never wanted to date anyone younger--not even remotely. In...