My mother isn’t an alcoholic, but she is a narcissist. I finally came to a point in my mid-20s when I realized that I truly loved her, but she was incapable of loving me. For awhile, that was enough. For awhile, I could continue to look the other way. For awhile I could explain that it was mental illness.

I noticed…

Working fathers have missed their children’s first steps. Would you say the same thing to a man who had a stay-at-home wife to raise children? Or should both parents be home all the time, lest you judge them not to care about bonding with their children?

The quote has the date correct but the story lists the year Moira died as 2011 rather than 2001.

I met Tom Cruise when I was 16 years old. I was an exchange student in Germany and was wandering downtown alone. I was approached by two people who asked me something—something about identity or bettering myself, but I honestly can’t remember. They wanted to sell me a book but it was in German and I said I wasn’t a…