When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world.
We try to reason with one another, but only manage to tear ourselves apart.
Today at the Melchor market, a fantastical sight. A servant girl with a birdcage on her back, full of birds. She wore her blue shawl wrapped around the cage and tied in front to hold it. The willow ca...
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assu...
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If th...
There is not justice in this world. Father, forgive me wherever you are, but this world has brought one vile abomination after another down on the heads of the gentle, and I’ll not live to see the mee...
There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
The women of his family would become one with the earth’s creatures only by pressing the bones of whales against their rib cages until breathless.
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in t...
That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he's forgotten that we Christians have our own system of ma...
Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise.
Summer's heat had never really arrived, nor the cold in it's turn, and everything living now seemed to yearn for sun with the anguish of the unloved. The world of sensible seasons had come undone.
So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here’s what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: ‘Please Note. Parts...
Small change, small wonders—these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. It’s a workable economy.
She stops trying to talk for a while, since there is nothing to say about a lost child that can change one star in a father’s lonely sky.
Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
Red on! Depends much. So?
Priests were illegal, saying the mass was illegal, all banned by the Revolution.
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and...