If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

Unless you work at the Republican National Committee or some other conservatively affiliated organization, people's personal political preferences should not be a criterion for employment or comfort in the workplace.

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.

I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.