We strive to set a good example, to teach you what you need to know, to guide you on your path from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood. But what we forget is that there is so much that YOU teach us. Don’t worry; this isn’t going to be one of those letters. You know […]
New research indicates that the main thing that prevents people from going out alone is their concern that others will think they’re unpopular. Several years ago, I was sitting at a bar with a friend on a Friday night. A few seats down, a woman sat by herself, drinking a glass of wine and reading […]
In writing about her surgery, Jolie looks shame right in the face and refuses it: for herself, for other women, for me. I thank her for that. Once I visited a friend in Alaska, the kind of woman who camps in the snow in a tent with a woodstove. She surprised me by insisting we […]
Show people who you really are, at all angles, even make fun of yourself a little bit, and you make it more possible for others to do the same. Recently a Facebook friend of mine commented on a status, “I really appreciate you having the courage to show yourself in so many states.” She was […]
