Still broken. There's a familiar theme. What is happy anyway? What does it even mean? What does it feel like? How do I get there? What do I want? I want to care about something again. I want... Read more >>

My 22-year old daughter and I perched on the end of her Ikea mattress while staring up at the wall-hanging: a framed map of the Paris Metro dated 1974, when I had first traveled there. It was... Read more >>

I had always imagined that when I brought my first baby home from the hospital, it would be to a handmade winter-white layette in a nursery dappled in sunlight pouring through the trees on the... Read more >>

I couldn’t find comfort, it was cold everywhere, the windows letting in frigid air through worn out panes. Winter was never my season but never did I pray for it not to be. How can one wish for... Read more >>

I always thought that being single was something you chose, but once the right person showed up, it was just a matter of time before you ended up together. It turns out, I did choose to be on my own... Read more >>

We’ve all been there before. Or, maybe we are there now: The newly broken relationship or crumbled marriage. The sudden job loss. The dire (and from out of nowhere) health... Read more >>

Letting go is something women are entirely too familiar with. Whether it’s letting go of something we value, something we love, or even something as simple as letting go of our past. But not... Read more >>

I have said many times that marriage was out of the picture. Okay, so my now ex-boyfriend and I still do stuff except for have sex. He made the relationship hard. He would do stuff and blame me for... Read more >>

Hold on to the thought, that’s yours—because I don’t want to hear it in the hustle and bustle of the town. Is there a place where you can speak aloud and the words travel and reach... Read more >>

I believe, and this is of course born from experience, that there are degrees to the process of moving on, whether from a lost (great!) love, or a fling, or even from a plan hatched inside my head... Read more >>