I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was tryin…”

“I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps b…”

“So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow li…”

“No" is a complete sentence.”