In the Big Apple, you get people like Beth on every bus, and nobody would say a word. You get races mixing, and it’s no big deal. Old people, young people, everyone keeps their mouth shut. There’s jus...
I'm rent! I'm rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky.
I observe that I too must alter my vocabulary. No longer is it proper to say, as I have all my life, that someone is mentally retarded. As I discover on other websites, by using the new People First L...
Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never know you'd had
A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.
Once a willful child who, like many willful children, felt most secure at home, has grown into an extravagantly social and nonconforming adult, one who creates camaraderie out of bus timetables, refus...
There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn’t do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn’t what you’d originally wanted, it was still worth...
Raising kids isn't carpentry, he said Forget measuring twice and cutting once, You measure over and over everyday
I realize, as the tightness yields in my shoulders and hips and feet, that Beth might well have wanted me to meet her drivers because I needed them, too.p 167