Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.

For some people, the better route for finding like-minded parents is just to get out of your house with your baby and frequent baby-friendly places.

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally.

You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.

Live in the moment, this moment, your moment. That is by far and without meaningful rival The Best Position to put yourself in to discover and delight in who your children turn out to be, whoever they turn out to be.

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.

I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.