Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now ask whether they have to do it all.

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives.