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.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

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

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

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

I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

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?