Tell me something that I don’t know. That the couple having lunch at the restaurant across the street didn’t suffer agonizing heartbreak before settling for each other. That the father and son down the block who aren’t speaking to each other will reconcile one day. That the child in the…

Perhaps the only universal truth about getting older is that we lose things as we age. Time takes from us what we can never get back. Opportunity, circumstances, abilities, looks, people we care about. In conjunction with the passage of time we also make decisions, whether actively or passively, that…

Sometimes we can lose sight of what a healthy relationship gives us. Besides safety and comfort and support and love, one of the most critical things we gain from any healthy relationship is the ability to be our truest self. In the presence of this other person, we are not…

“Hope leads to a broken heart.” Is all I can think about when I receive bad news about a close friend. It hasn’t been smooth sailing but I was so hopeful for them. They were making progress, they had a plan. They were working hard. And then things fly off…

I believe we are all damaged and struggling in our own way. I believe it’s more evident in some of us than others. I believe that existing on this planet is difficult no matter who we are, no matter what hand we’ve been dealt. I am interested in the experience…

Nick Foles isn’t supposed to be here right now. I don’t know where he’s supposed to be, and that’s the point. Wherever Foles is supposed to be is wherever professional athletes go when we stop hearing about them and they cease to matter in the way that grown men wearing…

There’s a way in which we talk about difficult, impossible things that’s unmistakable. That features a contradiction between the content of our words and our tone of voice and our energy. These difficult, impossible things are almost mentioned in passing. In a manner that one would discuss the weather while…

Imprisonment has been on my mind lately. Specifically, the many forms imprisonment can take in our lives. There is, of course, the obvious kind of imprisonment. The kind with metal bars and jumpsuits and things that are wrongly romanticized in movies and on television. But there are other kinds of…

Goodbyes are hard. And whenever I say goodbye to someone important, it makes me think about impermanence. About the fact that no matter what we do, impermanence is the only guarantee in life. The unavoidable truth is that if you wait long enough, everyone will leave in their own way. …