One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

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

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

As for superpower: I wish I could eat a million pastries and not gain weight. I wish I were Pastry Woman.

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.

In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.