As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.