Miss Garbo, I know exactly how you felt. Sometimes, I, too, want to be left alone. The film goddess, who departed the movies in 1941 and died in 1990, retained her fame by avoiding it, by becoming the ...

Dear Amy: I’m a mid-50’s mother of adult children. I have healthy relationships with my folks, siblings, children, and my loving partner. All that said: I crave being alone. I have never lived alone.

When Greta Garbo said, “I want to be alone,” in the 1932 movie “Grand Hotel,” she speaks for many of us. We want to be alone, too. As we near retirement, we crave alone time. For decades, we’ve had to ...