So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.