'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or...
'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses h...
Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time.
Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.
One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught...
Love doesn’t give you control—it takes control of you.
Look up.
What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I...
But her life on this earth had taught her this: that love, in the end, was all that mattered. Friends, families, suitors, husbands: Goodness abounded in all of them.
Before dawn, the air smelled of lemons.
Jane’s dream had ripped her heart from her chest, as if the past were a lion that could eat her alive.
Jane seemed to just like her. She liked her without wanting anything in return:
Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from...
We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.
Stars were caught in the tree branches. She wished she could keep stars in her pocket, just to give him every time she saw him.
We're keeping them alive, she said. Sweetheart, the fence, the wall, is inhumane. People are dying.That's their choice,he actually said. They come here illegally, that's the chance they take.When did...
Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.
Mexico—and I’m sure identifying
Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.
All I know is we're 16 and ready to be kissed, kissed kissed.