It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a lifesaver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.

Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.

The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away from the poor and giving it to the rich wholesale, and at the same time, we have the runaway corporations, and the greed.