It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please.

It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.

You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.