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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.