I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.
In my opinion, life is like juggling... Things come at youballs, clubs, knives, sorrow, loss. Either you stand there and let them hit you or you throw them back , with all your might.
I cannot be a monk, nor a crusader, nor a tumbler. I must stay here and hem sheets until I die. My humors are greatly out of balance. I prescribe for myself wormwood and spiced wine and some of the cu...
Alyce, she breathed. Alyce sounded clean and smart. You could love someone maned Alyce. She looked back at the face in the water. This is me, Alyce. It was right. So the newly called Alyce shifted the...
Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, whereve...
[in the context of 1881] Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need- What women need is more exercise, shorter skirts, and their own way once in a while.
I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside dow...
I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the stone floor. When I was little, I used to try and capture the c...