if you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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