It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life.

Write a living will. And become an organ donor!

you never forget your first fall.

Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.