A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned t….

Look at the view and you'll never be disappointed..

Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to….

Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconvenient….

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consist….

I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays..

You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acqu….

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens ass….

If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody would get real quiet ….

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a jo….

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle..

I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing..

The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That'….

Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of l….

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and spec….

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement..

There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it….

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themsel….

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail..

Speech is the voice of the heart..

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with..