If you don't like potlucks, the solution to your problem is "don't go to potlucks," not "insist other people don't have them."

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.

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.

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

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.

There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.

The love is in the waiting...

I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?""You're thinking of religion, " he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

How I hate everything!

The last Christian died on a cross.

Madame Bovary is myself.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.