When people run for their lives they frequently neglect to bring along their file cabinets of evidence, she said. Mattie wasn’t often bitter but when she was, she was. I didn’t want to believe the wor...
And my husband, why, hell hath no fury like a Baptist preacher.
How ridiculous it was. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you’ll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold—wi...
As I looked at her there among the pumpkins I was overcome with the color and the intesity of my life. In these moments we are driven to try and hoard happiness by taking photographs, but I know bette...
Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, inve...
It was a rule of marriage: the more desperately you needed alone time with your spouse, the quicker you’d spoil it with a blowout. When
Small change, small wonders—these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. It’s a workable economy.
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 can´t know what we haven´t been taught
¡Alabado sea el señor de todas las plagas y secretas aflicciones! Si Dios se divirtió inventando los lirios del campo, seguro que se partió de risa con los parásitos de África.
Except for her weak foundation. The ruin of many a girl, I guess.
In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.
In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone.
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will...
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
Sometimes that happens. Children can be your heartache. But that doesn’t matter, you have to go on and have them, she said. It works out.
One day we came home from some errands to find a grocery sack of them hanging on our mailbox. The perpetrator, of course, was nowhere in sight. Wow, we all said—what a good idea! Garrison Keillor says...
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults? That
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