women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now ask whether they have to ….

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears..

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of l….

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we ….

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It mea….

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they g….

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made..

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential..

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job ….

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed..

What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery th….

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves..

How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable..

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them..

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it..

The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train chil….

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals..

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to….

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for….

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning..