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Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when... →
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The... →
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops... →
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be... →
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Barbie is just a doll.
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other... →
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
List of newspaper columnists