They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

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.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.