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.

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

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

Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

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

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