I can't imagine anything that would signal more clearly that life goes on and joy can follow tragedy than your having a much wanted child.

When you have a life milestone happen, it's good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself.

When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.

Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.

Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.

Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.

I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.

The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners.

I have good feet but they always get cut off in photo shoots.

And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it.

Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

I've noticed that if you spend ten years without shooting dope, people consider you an ex-junkie, but one never is considered an 'ex-woman-beater.'

And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned.

There is no formula to relationships.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.