The day my parents officially announced they were divorcing, I was newly 30. It was, if I’m completely honest, a relief. They had already been separated for about two years by this point, a long, ...
A photo of the author taken on recent vacation. Courtesy of Melanie Bell I was at the airport, waiting for a TSA full-body scan, when the woman managing the line asked me, “Are you old enough to go in ...
DEAR ABBY: I was married for 20 years to a man who slowly isolated me from friends and family until I had no one but him to rely on. Now 49 and divorced, I am without close friends. For the last two ...