Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't b...
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
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 tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper lov...
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:Wear sunscreen.If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whe...
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourse...
Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.