Clothes have special power. I'll always remember the raspberry colored v-necked silk sweater I was wearing on my husband and my first date. If I hadn't been wearing that sweater that night, would any of it have happened?

One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.

For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.