Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.