Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner..

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and val….

what shall we drink to?" "How about family?" Stacy said, showing up just in time to pour a fourth shot. "To those who are here, those who are gone, a….

She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks.

It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before….

I have often wished in the past few years that my mom were here to help me as I raised my own teenage son. As a girl, with my own mom, I thought I kn….

Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better..

She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt..

Sometimes holding on was all you could do..

She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never changed. They'd hurt each other, let each o….

Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can’t see ho….

To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering i….

but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how ….

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are..

To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost..

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waitin….

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way..

I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship]..

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you ju….

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination..

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl..