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Old School: Advice from the Ancients

What I've learned from JFK

Fifty years ago this month, the nation elected its first Roman-Catholic/hot president (no offense, Ulysses S. Grant—the crazy, gun-wielding, alcoholic General thing went out of style with Andrew Jackson).

Restore Sanity this Fall Break

Every morning after I wake up, I make myself a to-do list. Sometimes, they get a little more complicated: GO FOR MAGNA CUM LAUDE, finish all your grad school applications, LET IT BE, watch the entire series of "The West Wing," stop thinking about boys—Colin Firth is not available.

That's enough out of you, Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert has issues.