An empty pad of sticky notes leaves nothing but sadness, a void of emptiness on your desk. Hope those ideas were good, Mr. Idea Man, because they cost a very small, very sticky stack of paper its life ...

I belong to a long line of New York writers and editors who love things that look like other things, like mayonnaise that looks like a tube of toothpaste, or teeny-tiny replicas of everyday objects, ...

Where would we be without life's simple little luxuries? I'm not talking about the latest in cell phone technology geared to luring teenagers with instant messaging and Web cams. Nor am I referring to ...