The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following:1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog.
That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And...
Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.
So you believe people can't change? That once you do a bad thing, you're a bad person?I don't know, I admit.But I do think that some stains never wash out.
She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.
She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid i...
She is quiet for a moment. have you ever been swimming in the summer, she asks, when a cloud comes in front of the sun? You know how, for a few seconds, you're absolutely freezing in th water and you...
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at al...
Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy
Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. Y...
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
Please come to the dance, because you're my music.
Peter tucked the glasses into the front pocket of Jordan’s jacket. I kind of like knowing you’retaking care of them, he said. And there isn’t all that much I really want to see.Jordan nodded. He walke...
Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
One of the most amazing things about elephants mourning in the wild is their ability to grieve hard, but then truly, unequivocally, let go. Humans can't seem to do that. I've always thought it's becau...
Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all th...
My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
Maybe this was the job of a mother: to buy time for her child, no matter what. Even if it meant doing something she'd rather not; even if it left her flat on her back.
Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.