If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.

It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not flowers, chocolates, or ankle-length pearls, but a note from your doctor.

Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over and over, gives us the Gift of Life Like many of the gifts we receive from our mothers, the Gift of Life usually doesn't fit properly and is almost never returnable without a major hassle.

Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

Dating is probably the most important aspect of a single person's life.