The heart, I think, which is the home of all things rhythmic, is where learned poems go to live.
Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natur...
It was as if that day was so dark that my mind folded in on itself, protectively, the way a daisy will at night.
Novels and gardens, she says. I like to move from plot to plot.
President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's...
The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region,...
The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.
Yes is all you ever need to say to begin a journey.
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
The conversation progressed, bumper-car style, to a very heated discussion about death and the survival of the soul. It amazes me that we, as a species, can argue so fervently over something that is,...
When did sentimental become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automat...
And so we became who we are: gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused. It is not a bad way to be, when all is said and done.
Meeting a dragon is like falling in love. Even though you have never experienced it before, you will know when it has happened.
Below us lay a valley white with snow. It was criss-crossed with lines, like a great cupped palm. But not even an expert seer would have had time to read the story of our future. Before we could get o...
I say I have made it a rule not to preach. However, anyone who is 101 has earned the right to break her own rules. Once in a while, at least. And so, I am going to give you one piece of advice. Pause...