First of all, it’s impossible not to compare. When you go down a fork in a road, it’s impossible not to think about that other path. Wonder what your life could have been like…
But there is one constant, one thing you can always count on: that not only does love come first, but in the end, it is the only thing that remains.
desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move
Grocery lists. That was back when I thought my
And then realize it’s not Peter I miss, but the idea of what I once thought we shared.
Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the rightperson for you. That takes some time to figure out
We all agree that there is no bright-line litmus test for what works in marriage, or what happiness looks like. That it all comes down to the two people inside the relationship.
They were all true—and still are—but were better left unsaid, just as I decided never to confess to Andy how close Icame to losing everything. Instead, I hold that day deep within myself, as a reminde...
There simply is no way to tread these dangerous waters.
The late afternoon sun highlighted all her lines and wrinkles, making her look older than I thought of her as. Then again, she probably was in her early seventies by now, which somehow seemed so much...
That is one of the problems with getting older. There is a distinct lag time between how you see others and how you view yourself. I still thought of myself as looking twenty-four.
Somewhere deep down, I know I’m in the wrong. I know I’m rationalizing my actions, and worry I might even be manufacturing problems with Andy to get this result. I also know that I’m only inviting mor...
Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that seem to be worst but in some ways, Its sadder as time goes by and you consider how muc...
Ne volim krajeve i početke. Uvijek bih se radijeljuljuškala u sredini.
My little girls are all grown-up. I remember when the three of you were in diapers, running around at the pool with your little orange water wings. And now look at you, my mom says, so nostalgic that...
Look on the bright side. Be grateful for what you have. Count your blessings. Optimism is the foundation of courage.
It’s a metaphor for life. If sports don’t matter, then life doesn’t matter.
It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy,...
I was in the fifth grade the first time I thought about turning thirty. My best friend Darcy and I came across a perpetual calendar in the back of the phone book, where you could look up any date in t...
I realize thirty is just a number, that you're only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand scheme of things, thirty is still young. But it's not that young.