While I was in high school, my aunt and uncle used to call me “Marian the librarian,” and predicted that’s what I would become. I knew nothing about The Music Man, a musical of bygone era, in which a traveling salesman invades a wholesome Midwestern town...

The first time Mrs. Toner came onto my radar screen, I was fifteen years old, and I was in a tree house.The Toners lived next door to my family, in an upscale suburb of Washington, D.C. Mr. Toner was some kind of political type on Capitol Hill. He was nev...

I was so ashamed.Ashamed, and yet, with the revelation of what I had done, the memories of it – my obsession of it, really – are still as powerful as the sex itself.I am like a million other women, I think. No matter how we have lived - even those with su...

I’d been looking forward to picking up some new lingerie that Saturday, but never expected it to be so much fun!Ordinarily, I would shop at Les Intimes, but I’d kind of blown my budget the weekend before out in the Hamptons, so I decided to slum it at Blo...