Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

There’s life after divorce, Sarah,’ my father proclaimed, not that he’d ever been divorced.

When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.

Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

I pulled my suitcase out of the backseat of my bug, along with Cannoli's new travel case, a spiffy animal print pet backpack on wheels. When I first saw it, I thought maybe the dog was supposed to wear the backpack, but it turned out the person wore the backpack with the dog in it.