Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.

It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.

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.

I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.

Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.

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

You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life or sweet memories.