Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

You may not be able to convince everyone around you that you're doing the right thing, but you don't have to subject yourself to endless second-guessing from others, either.

Kids know when they're getting yelled at and mocked, I can assure you.

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.