Thurber was right when he said, You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards.
Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily more profound, but there was a struggle going on inside me to find...
The redwoods are like organ pipes, playing silent chords.
One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.
Of course, there will always be more you could do, but you have to remind yourself that perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
New is life.
It’s like bitch-slapping E.T.
Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and is the real payoff.
Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be...
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering vot...
Clarity of vision—especially
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and...
One has to be done with the pretense of being just fine, unscarred, perfectly self-sufficient. No one is.
Life on earth is a head-scratcher for anyone who's paying attention. This place has been a bad match for me since I was four.
It can be too sad here. We so often lose our way.
I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.
I knew to put on my favorite earrings. Sometimes you start with the outside and you get it right. You tend to your spirit through the body.
I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.
