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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

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I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

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I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

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James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?

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I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I have learned is that you dig a little and you find ...more

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In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.