I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.