In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
Most of us don’t see it that way, but there are chapters in our lives, he said quietly. We want to believe that the same characters will be in the story forever. But it rarely seems to work out that w...
You have to move forward in life. You can’t sit in the same place, unless you want to, that’s a choice too. But you can’t sit there because someone else says you have to, because your moving forward m...
Things work out the way they're meant to
She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.
Never settle for less than your dreams. Somewhere, sometime,someday,somehow, you'll find them.
It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. —Anne Fr...
The judge arrived half an hour later with the file he had collected from his office on the way, signed several papers, had Sam sign them, the matron witness them; Josh cried, Norm cried, she cried, th...
Some battles just aren’t worth fighting. You have to know how to pick them. Don’t wear yourself out on the small stuff, Merrie. Save yourself for the big stuff.
She wanted to ask him how his
Parfois, les prières mettent longtemps avant d'être exaucées, mais les plus ferventes le sont toujours.
I had learned firsthand that tragedy and disappointment can strike any of us at any time.
We break up over this? I don’t think
Give,
His smiles were hard won, but when they came, they were well worth it. They lit up his face like summer sunshine. The rest of the time, and far more frequently, he seemed lost in winter. And when he l...
Up shells, and waded at the water’s edge,
Expected
Euphoric
There was something infinitely impressive about the man, tall, slender, gray-haired, blue-eyed, soft-spoken. He had the looks of the doctors one read about in women's novels. There was something so ba...
As the director of one of the agencies providing free mental health services says, the Audubon Society spends more time, care, and money counting birds than we do counting homeless people.