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.

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?

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

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

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

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