Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.

What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

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

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

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