Don't dare presume there's shame in the lot of a woman who carries on.
Do you know, I spent the first half of my life avoiding motherhood and tires, and now I’m counting them as blessings?
Damned thing, self-consciousness, like a pitiful stray dog tagging you down the road—so hard to shake off. So easy to get back.
Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage.
Communism? Most people have no idea what it is. I do not exaggerate. Look around this restaurant, ask any of these fine citizens. 'Excuse me, sir, I've been thinking of an idea, a bunch of working peo...
But other people fast or walk long pilgrimages to honor the spirit of what they believe makes our world whole and lovely. If we gardeners can, in the same spirit, put our heels to the shovel, kneel be...
Both vitamin pills and vegetables are loaded with essential nutrients, but not in the same combinations. Spinach is a good source of both vitamin C and iron. As it happens, vitamin C boosts iron absor...
Back in Georgia everybody we knew had an automobile. A bu, don't tell stories. That is not possible. Well, not everybody. I don't mean babies and children. But every single family. Not possible. Yes,...
All human odes are essentially one. My life: what I stole from history, and how I live with it.
After arriving on the ancestral soil I figured out pretty quickly why that [Italian] heritage swamps all competition. It's a culture that sweeps you in, sits you down in the kitchen, and feeds you so...
A mother’s unfulfilled ambitions lie heaviest on her daughters.
A mother can be only as happy as her unhappiest child.
A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happene...
A flower is a plant's way of making love.
A disappointed-looking Jesus eyed her from the wall...Look, look, her steps called out, here is a red headed sinner on the move.
A bird in the hand loses its mystery in no time flat.
Trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. A caterpillar becomes a...
The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?
I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them...
You and I are not like other people. We perceive infinite nature as a fascination, not a threat to our sovereignty.... When the nuisance of old mythologies falls away from us, we may see with new eyes...