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Except, of course, that this male friend confessed to me a year ago, while I was in Kenya with my family, that I was the part of his day he looked forward to the most. I’ve realized that I’m a little in love with you, he emailed. _I hope that can be ok. Why can’t people sometimes be a little in l…

What I have not told anyone about my reliance on the white-noise machine is that I need it not only for my husband’s snoring, but for the sound of his breathing—a thing that never bothered me until the past few years. Even the sound of his mild sleep breath is enough to make me feel like clawing th…

At one time, my father would drive my mother to New York on dates just so they could get a slice of authentic cheesecake—even in my teens he was known to hunt for the best apple pie all over the state of Michigan, just because. He knew which bakery in Chicago made the freshest doughnuts and drove a…

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come . . . There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,…