She's a picture of concern, like some kind of well, bless your heart Southern woman in an old movie. Except that my freshman-year English teacher was from Alabama, and I know what Southern people mean when they say bless your heart.

Gravity is a cruel bitch.

How do you come back to the real world when you've fallen out for a bit?

After all, our patron saint, rock-and-roll princess Stevie Nicks, spent years hoping some guy might save her, and then she figured out that she was absolutely capable of saving herself.

Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out.