I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.

[Christmas] holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays because that's when you're thinking about family. Are we close? Or are we not as close as other people?

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.