So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

Men date. Women have relationships.

Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.