When you quit drinking you stop waiting..

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make hers….

The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears an….

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small won….

I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still ….

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering s….

When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws..

Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They ….

I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this….

Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someo….

There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses yo….

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts..

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wear….

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and s….

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures..

Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is ….

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a ra….

Alcoholism is the disease of more..

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we..

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got th….

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind..