I thought, not for the first time, that maybe it would have been better if he’d just died, a thunderclap heart attack, an artery bursting in his brain, a peaceful exit in the middle of the night, in h...
I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or wha...
I shut my eyes, assaulted by a sudden vision of Bruce and his new girl in his wide, warm bed, his arm wrapped companionably around her, telling my family secrets...and the new girl would give a wise,...
I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.
Husbands and houses are negotiable, she said, And as for a plan... we'll figure it out.
He's a great guy, she said ,and he heard her try to sound enthusiastic,like she was selling herself on her soon-to-be-husband's greatness...and then,in a whispered rush, just before she cut the connec...
For months I’d been writing, holed up in my bedroom, or doing the clichéd thing of bringing my laptop to a neighborhood coffee shop, where I was surrounded by my more attractive peers, the ones who ca...
Don’t upset your mother, my father would say.
Born on third base and think they hit a triple,
Back then, I didn’t understand that what was happening in my house was not happening in everyone’s house at night, when the doors were shut and the blinds were drawn. It took me just as long to sort o...
As we get older we all learn that there isn't a finish line....or maybe there is, but it keeps moving. It's a rare moment where we look around, sigh with satisfaction, pull our spouse or kids or pets...
A man takes care of his house, and a man takes care of his tools.
A lemon, said Mrs. Lefkowitz, and nodded. Huh? Think about fruit, she continued. When you squeeze an orange, what do you get? Rose smiled. Trouble? No, no, Mrs. Smart. You get orange juice. You don’t...
A body was just a body, just a vessel for her soul, and she was under no obligation to keep her body looking any certain way, no more than she was obliged to do anything just because it was customary,...
When I married him, but, in the ten years since, it seemed like he’d decided that anything that went wrong in his life or anyone else’s was the liberals’ fault. Ellie considered
Room and refused to return to the table, even
Long as people can still surprise you, it means you’re not dead.
Face and figure from my dad’s mother, Grandma Sadie, who was tall,
Conversation with Dave, telling him what had happened.
You’ve got to make time. It’s important. You know how they tell you on planes, in case of an emergency, the adults should put their oxygen masks on first? You’re not going to be any good to anyone if...