Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.