Steve Lambert

Years from now, Tin Kuo will better understand that. Right now, he's just trying to work through it, his dreams of winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee cut short after three grueling preliminary rounds.   [...MORE]

I've cleaned some nasty bathrooms in my time.

My own can be pretty horrific, though nothing like the ladies room at a diaphragm factory I worked at one summer in college. You read right, diaphragm factory, as in a subsidiary of Ortho Pharmaceutical - the good people who have done their best to control the population.  [...MORE]

No more unfettered access to the carpool lane, breezing past the mere mortals of rush hour as they jam their brakes and honk their horns and pound their dashboards. Soon, I'll be merely mortal too, albeit with supercharged mpg and a yellow clean air decal to accessorize my gun-barrel gray Prius.   [...MORE]

Bin Laden was dead, but in her 6-year-old world, the only bogeyman is the one she's imagined - the one we lock away in the closet every night while she dreams her little girl dreams.   [...MORE]

"Graceland" (1986) fused South African rhythms with Simon's often-peculiar way of looking at the world, earning him a fair share of apartheid-era notoriety and his third album-of-the-year Grammy.   [...MORE]

"Who am I?"

"What do I want?"

Pretty simple.

Never more relevant, not if you have any hope of navigating what has become a very complicated, complex and unforgiving world.   [...MORE]

We oiled our gloves and practiced our autographs and modeled our batting stances after our favorite players - and never thought about money.   [...MORE]