If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head.

I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

Nothing makes me roll my eyes faster than a "Coexist" bumper sticker.