Happily Ever, After We Split

03/06/2012

My soon-to-be ex turned out to be one of the few people who shared my vision of a better, more connected future — with different partners.

A Visit, and What Really Happened

24/05/2012

HIS e-mail read: ''Here for one night. Giants game tomorrow. Buy you a drink?'' I was so stunned, I lost my breath. I hadn't seen him in 25 years. I thought I had gotten over the need to get over my first love. But 11 words on a screen and I was a nervous

Navigating New Trenches After a Breakup

18/05/2012

SOME years ago, when I was living in Britain, I received an e-mail from a college friend who had recently announced her first pregnancy. ''We have become good friends with a black/white couple,'' she wrote. ''They have a precious baby boy -- you and Dan a

Paralysis of the Heart

13/05/2012

With my son, Joe, I wasn’t fearless. Quite the opposite, I was petrified by how much I loved him.

A Hiker's Guide to Healing

03/05/2012

WHEN I was packing to leave college in the spring of my freshman year, shoving jeans and T-shirts and mittens into my suitcase and crying, I spoke with my parents on the phone. I told them I was unimpressed by school. I told them I was cold in Colorado, e