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

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

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

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

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

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.

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