Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're happy and in love and content with your life, you can't remember ho...
Was it normal now for parents to operate in the dark? She never knew what was fair to ask.
This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
The way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policeman in the old movies: Ouch, mind you!
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coinci...
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
One person's picture postcard is someone else's normal.
No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
Most of what's known about religious practices in pre-Hispanic Mexico has come to us through a Catholic parish priest named Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, one of the few who ever became fluent in the Nahua...
Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. Well, I put up with him anyway.
Mama says their skin bears scars different from ours because their skin is a map of all the sorrows in their lives.
Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.
If a shipment of ground beef somehow gets contaminated with pathogens, our federal government does not have authority to recall the beef, only to request that the company issue a recall.
I understood that the terror of my recurring dream was not about losing just vision, but the whole of myself, whatever that was. What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you...
Here, bodily damage is more or less considered to be a by-product of living, not a disgrace.
Her kitchen chairs were equipales that took you in like a hug, which I needed.
Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that’s no longer really about feeding anyone: in our own nation we export 1.1 million tons of potatoes, while we also import 1.4 mi...
First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival.
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resol...
Eaters must understand, Wendell Berry writes, that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, ho...