remember reading an article about how people congregate, learning that they do exactly the opposite of what you’d expect. If two friends run into each other on a busy street, you’d think they would duck into a quiet alcove to talk. Instead, they move right in the middle of a crowd, because people want to be with other people.

generally dull Washington architecture scene.”

Lucas: “We’re all living in cages with the door wide open.”

“It’s not what you say that counts, it’s what they hear.”

My happy tour of Paris took a sad turn on 9/11,

“You never know your good breaks from your bad ones.”

overshadowing what I used to love. I felt that I wasn’t doing anything new, and

Bread baking depends on kneading the dough to develop the gluten, the protein in wheat flour that creates the structure of the bread. Gluten is tough—almost every cake recipe says, “Add the flour and mix only until combined,” because you don’t want

that? I will never ever forget that lunch. It was one of the truly