If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them, [Jeannette's mom] said. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.Oh yeah? I sa...
I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made y...
Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we...
From the time the Joshua tree was a tiny sapling, it had been so beaten down by the whipping wind that, rather than trying to grow skyward, it had grown in the direction that the wind pushed it. It ex...
Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.
Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who consider...
[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin? I asked Mom. Not exactly, Mom s...
God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?
It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.
Dad's death didn't hollow me out the way Helen's had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he got kicked in the head as a child. Instead, he had cheated death and, despite his gim...
Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito, I'd tell people.