When musicians get old, they compile Greatest Hits albums. While I’m not ready for a retrospective just yet, I do keep track of favorite stories I’ve written. Here is a sampling:

This Newsweek cover story from May 2006 revisits a Newsweek piece published 20 years earlier declaring that women over 40 faced dismal odds of marrying. Turns out we were wrong. Here’s why. To read it, click here.

This Newsweek cover story from November 2002 examines how kids’ cable channels like Disney and Nickelodeon have begun to compete with PBS by offering educational television. If you have a “Dora the Explorer” fan in your house, you’ll enjoy this piece. To read it, click here.

This April 2004 cover story from the Boston Globe Magazine explores why fewer Americans are handy today, and uses the TV show “This Old House” as the lens through which to examine this trend. To read it, click here.

This feature story from Wired magazine in November 2005 examines a pair of entrepreneurs who created a Netflix-like business focusing on adult films-but struggle to find profits in it. To read it, click here.

When TV’s Mister Rogers died in 2003, Newsweek let me write an Appreciation. It remains one of my favorite pieces. To read it, click here.

In June of 2000, I wrote a profile of Rosanne Badowski, executive assistant to General Electric’s then-chairman, Jack Welch. The piece tries to explore the intimacy of office life, which can exist despite vast gulfs in status and income. To read it, click here.

Inc. Magazine has a section called “How I Did It,” in which veteran entrepreneurs tell their story with help from a writer. Here’s how Suzanne Somers and her husband did it, as told to me. To read it, click here.

For Fast Company magazine, I profiled Xerox chief technology officer Sophie Vandebroek, and examined how she juggled her fast-track career with life as a single mother of three children after her husband’s sudden death. To read it, click here.

Newsweek readers love its Periscope section, and I love writing for it, too. Here is my most memorable Peri item, about how the show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” appears to be putting its “winners” in tax jeopardy. To read it, click here.

In the fall of 2007 I began writing the “Resident Expert” column for Newsweek’s website. One of my best-read columns to date focused on a Florida man who was losing sleep over his falling home value, even though he had no intention of selling. To read it, click here.

At Newsweek I write frequently for the magazine’s “Enterprise” section. I especially enjoyed writing this profile of Whole Foods Market and its CEO, John Mackey. To read it, click here.