I went to college WITH a friend from high school who totally changed and abandoned me and I was soooooo ready to get out of there. But I think that kind of destitution and suffering makes you a better person. Certainly a better observer and writer. And it sort of makes you glad when you do have awesome people in…

Just...yes. A friend of mine once told me that she puts in earbuds and climbs to the very top of the bleachers at her child's rec league basketball practices just to avoid other horrible parents. I used to sit in my car at youth soccer. It's like high school, only with more pretention. (Or your child DIDN'T go to…