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.

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

In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.

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

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

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

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.