Disaster usually happens for me when everything I have counted on has stopped working, including all my best skills, intentions, and good ideas.

“One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid…”

“When we think we can do it all ourselves--fix, save, buy, or date a nice soluti…”

“Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her ow…”

“Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given …”