When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.

I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners.

Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.

Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

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

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.