On Sunday morning I put on jeans, changed into a denim dress, then back into jeans again, feeling stupid. I can get into a mood where I annoy myself to no end. At the moment when I got completely fed...
The traffic was moving about the speed of a government
You from out of town? he asked after a while, eying my car. No, I said. I go to Kentucky every year to get my license plate. I didn’t like his looks.
So if it’s not this exact prophet of self-indulgence we’re looking to for reassurance, it will be some other liar who’s good at distracting us from the truth.
Several studies, including research done by Allison Byrum of the American Chemical Society, have shown fruits and vegetables grown without pesticides and herbicides to contain 50 to 60 percent more an...
She breathed in slowly; this was what she had, the beauty of this awful night. She listened for small yips in the distance, something to put in her heart besides the lost phoebes and the dread of anot...
She climbs down and pours half an inch of Jim Beam into a Bengals mug that came free with a tank of gas. Alice would just as soon get her teeth cleaned as watch the Bengals. That's the price of stayin...
She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. Even the child Ruth May touched history. Everyone is complicit. The okapi complied by living, and the spider by dying. It would...
But humans have a built-in weakness for fats and sugar. We evolved in lean environments where it was a big plus for survival to gorge on calorie-dense foods whenever we found them. Whether or not they...
The end was always curled up there between us, like a sleeping cat, present even in our love-making.
She laid the side of her face against his frail old heart, where the pink shell of her ear could capture whatever song it had left.
She looked over the bins of tinselly junk and felt despair, trying to find one single thing that wouldn't fall apart before you got it home. Maybe her father was lucky to die young with his pride of c...
What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive.
But it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse. After
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that current food production can sustain world food needs even for the 8 billion people who are projected to inhabit the planet in 2030. This wil...
When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
What we suffered in our lives we went through together, but somehow we came out different doors, on different ground levels.
When he marched to the altar, all the women in smart hats leaned away from the aisle, their long strands of pearls all swaying to one side as if the deck of a ship listed beneath them.
When I'm in a blue mood, I head for the kitchen. I turn the pages of my favorite cookbooks, summoning the prospective joyful noise of a shared meal. I stand over a bubbling soup, close my eyes, and in...
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