A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking..

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 ….

Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay..

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….

I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children..

I'm not a big fan of the white lie..

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….

Your friends will need you, too, someday. Maybe not in the same way, maybe not in cash and shelter, but they'll need you - to listen without judging,….

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..