When I was a kid, the “Do as I say, not as I do” school of parenting reigned supreme. Those adults lecturing children on the dangers of smoking? Smokers, one and all. Kids would get in big trouble for ...

There are a few rules that are drummed so incessantly into our heads in school that we cannot help but internalize them. One is “No sentence fragments!” Actually, that should be “Don’t use sentence ...

For most of my life, I have been a rules-follower. Yes, occasionally I go wild. I’ll eat ice cream straight out of the container. I’ll wear blue with black. Sometimes — I’ll just come out and say it — ...