Have you ever had the demanding house guest come and stay at your house? You know, the one who seems to have lots of requests despite the fact that they are getting a free place to stay? Recently I had a house guest who said to me, “Am I going to get my own room?” I said, “Yes, you are going to sleep on an air mattress in my office. We only have two bedrooms, and the second bedroom is basically Sonja’s storage room.

Here is something interesting that I was just talking about with the guys. We were in Long’s and Whole Foods and we ran into probably three or four really grumpy old people. I’m talking probably 75+. There are two kinds of old people: there are those that you meet and you have like a magical [...]

The other night I was at the Coldplay concert and I was walking through a crowd and I realized: there is a term that many Americans seem to have forgotten. It’s a term that English people seem to overuse, or at least use in various forms.

Whenever you are on the subway – the tube in England – or in a crowded restaurant, and a British person bumps into you, they will immediately look at you and say, “sorry,” or “pardon me,” or “excuse me.” But Americans seem to have this incredible lack of knowledge about the term “excuse me” or the word “sorry.”