I sat down to brunch with a married couple I’ve known for years.  The friendship is so comfortable, we dare to talk about religion and politics.  Mostly we discuss books. The husband told me he was working through the novels of a Japanese woman who wrote fantasy.  He couldn’t r

When I was 29, I realized I had to make a decision. Almost everyone around me was married.  Was I to sail into my 30s an old maid or pick one of the two suitors available, neither of whom interested me?  Despite her failed marriage, my mother wanted me to settle.  She liked the you