Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.

I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.

The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would know better.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.