Live and Learn

I was given this book for my birthday (among other thoughtful presents):


I haven't started reading it yet, but I'm looking forward to it. I'd like to be like Joan Didion. She seems so collected, so smart. I feel that I will be smarter, happier, more focused and engaged when I am reading this book. Those qualities will transfer themselves to me.

Mild quandary

If you knew something you knew someone else wanted to know, even if they hadn't asked you, or they had given you an opportunity to speak up that you hadn't initially taken so that telling them the thing would now involve reopening the subject oneself in order to tell them the thing, and noone would suffer or be reflected poorly upon either way, what would you do?