800 million people are chronically underfed (6 will die of hunger-related causes while you read this article), it’s because they lack money and opportunity, not because food is unavailable in their co...
48-point type, a letter size that big-city newspapers probably reserve for special occasions such as Armageddon. Out here in the heartland, we are not waiting that long. Our local paper’s stance on th...
The twins too, they've never cared a hoot what they looked like. They spent so much time staring at each other's faces before they were born they can go the rest of their lives passing up mirrors with...
The houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritc hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.
The blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit trees that taps into an invisible vein of nurture and bears radiant bushels of plums while the trees around it merely go on living.
Penitence is more attainable than permission.
The help of friends I rearranged my small apartment to accommodate a grown-up baby, and warily crept each morning from a
The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
That mothers’ and daughters’ hearts can be crushed so repeatedly without learning to defend themselves.
Sweet orange Jaune Flammes, which are just the right size to slice in half, sprinkle with salt and thyme, and bake for several hours until they resemble cow flops (the recipe says shoes, if you prefer...
Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. He
My books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.
Less the same in her own home, which she’d had no chance to clean. If neither of these qualified in Hester’s mind as valid church-excused emergencies, Dellarobia
Is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
In the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten.
Fact our shoes filled with mud and our clothes turned to slime, and it was the farthest thing from pleasant. Mosquitoes that had lain dormant through the long drought now hatched and rose from the for...
Colonial American and Australian schoolchildren once memorized poems about British skylarks while the blue jays or cockatoos (according to continent) squawked outside, utterly ignored. The dominant cu...
Benzene running through a school basement. It’s interesting that penny-pinching is an accepted defense for toxic food habits, when frugality so rarely rules other consumer domains. The majority of Ame...
Admired their own steadfast lives. Right up to the day when hope in all its versions went out of stock,
[from an entry by her daughter Camille] Organic produce actually delivers more nutritional bang for the buck. These fruits and vegetables are tougher creatures than those labeled conventional, precise...