Now this is good advice. Stay off the tracks. You are not invincible. You are not untouchable. You are not the exception. So go ahead—get over yourself a little. You spend so much time staring at your own flaws, your own hurts, your own mess, you miss the bigger truth: you are wildly,...

Baby, for the record—I’m not bold this week. Not even a little. This week’s been rough and tumble, and that left-behind, invisible feeling? Yeah. I don’t handle that well. I get quiet, I get sideways, I start looking around for something in this world to tell me who I am—and it never does. Not...

Baby, if you’re reading this, I probably like you more than you think—and yes, I’d let you sit by me at lunch. But you’ve got to quit being so hard on the person in the mirror. Give it a rest. You do not become better by tearing yourself down. You don’t grow by running your own name into the...