“Ours was a common and unsung friendship, that between women living in New York, single and alone, and the doormen wh...

“I tossed out one last question: ‘Have you ever been in love?’ No one, he said, had ever asked him that in an intervi...

“My personal life was another story. In love there’s no hiding: You have to let someone know who you are, but I didn’...

“We rallied, not with the adrenaline-pumping determination to win at all costs, but with the patience and control tha...

“There is never a good time to fall off your couch onto a martini glass and begin losing a dangerous amount of blood,...

“He was very handsome. He wore gray turtleneck sweaters and smelled like mint aftershave and old books. He was 55 and...

“There was no guarantee that doing an open adoption would get us a baby any faster… in fact, our agency warned us tha...

“Old love is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life’s ups and downs to know who we were, a...