I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship.

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

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.

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

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.

Sure, people talk about all kinds of stuff at the office, but surely everyone has better things to do than sound like they're auditioning for Fox News.

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.