It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and m….

I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories..

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored..

Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to ch….

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows..

I realize that people fly with small children all the time, and that babies are easier in some ways because all they do is sit/lie around anyway, but….

The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry ….

All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'..

Live in the moment, this moment, your moment. That is by far and without meaningful rival The Best Position to put yourself in to discover and deligh….

Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you're doing or undoing something..

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand..

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members..

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting..

Plan your own vacations when you want to, and plan a suitable combined vacation with this other family when you want to. If they freak out at your pl….

For some people, the better route for finding like-minded parents is just to get out of your house with your baby and frequent baby-friendly places..

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is….

For me, the greatest source of frustration was trying to work with a willful child when there was something else I wanted - say, to get the child to ….

If you are being shuffled around, then you should feel shuffled around..

You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on wh….

I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do somet….

There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to do the w….