It’s insulting to anyone of intelligence, especially to people of colour and women.

For all her indifference to status, Helen is well-informed about the arts and especially her own fetishes.

I want to share a beautiful story with you about a romantic environmental adventure novel I wrote 20 years ago that reunited two dear high school friends. My dear friend and I shared a very special friendship bond and we ate lunch together everyday until we both graduated.

Whether this sounds snarky or not it needs to be said, and I guess I'm going to be the one to say it. Please stop talking sh*t to writers.

Conclusion: The father plays a major role in who we are and who we become; his absence may occupy the center stage of a person's life.

I always joke that I don't have many friends--I never have had. Everywhere I've lived, I seemed to pick up only one or two. But those one or two friends often became friends for life. So I have my couple of friends from college, from graduate school, and so on, and we'd do anything for each other.