I had to do it for myself.
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.
I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others...
Before they had kids, if asked to conjure images of parenthood they would have said things like Reading in bed, and Giving a bath, and Running while holding the seat of a bicycle. Parenthood contains...
As Pollan explains, Eating industrial meat takes an almost heroic act of not knowing, or, now, forgetting.
And when the blush of a schoolgirl's cheeks was mistaken for the crimson of a holy man's fingers, it was the schoolgirl who was called hussy, tramp, slut.
I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.You never bake bread, he wrote, and we were still joking....
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act....
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conv...
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
Laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own,
And i wouldn't say no to something sweet.
What does it remember like?
Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.
To try to live.
The burning bush must not be consumed.
Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chickens become infected with E. coli (an indicator of fecal contamination) and between 39 and 75 percen...