There's a young guy in my house running a cable line, and I'm doing the thing I'm terrible at, which is trying to talk to him while he works. Small talk and I have never gotten along; I feel about it the way other people feel about public speaking. But he's easy — twenty-four, maybe, [...]

Every few months I try. A text chain. A treasured phone call. Once, a back-and-forth about where we're going next, because we still take trips together — that's the part I need you to understand before the rest of this makes sense. We've been friends for almost thirty years. Somewhere in the last few, she [...]

I want to tell you how my husband proposed, because the circumstances were absurd and I have been living off them ever since. We were talking about our parents. Specifically, about how bad our parents' marriages were and how hard it had been to grow up inside them. We were both crying by the end [...]