When your pain is bad, and your strength is gone, you might start thinking of leaving. Leaving. I like that.
When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love.
When something is hard, but you do it anyway and get stronger because you did it, that’s building character.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic
Wake up & Smell The Hot Chocolate ! ~ Eddie Havens
This was the House that Jack Built, she thought, hearing the singsong rhythm of the old children’s story in her head. And this was the wife who lived in the house that Jack built. And there was the mi...
The moments of life are ephemeral and unpredictable. We must capture the best ones and keep them safe in our hearts.
The human spirit could brave anything so long as there was some better future to believe in.
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss?
The Immigration Reform Act wiped out that option. Used to be, if undocumented parents could prove their deportation would put a U.S. citizen—in this case, you, AJ—at risk, the judge could let them sta...
That if you never get your hopes up, she said, taking a sip of hot chocolate, you’ll never be disappointed. Ouch,
Thank you for all the Acts of Light which beautified a summer now passed to its reward. —letter from Emily Dickinson to Mrs. John Howard Sweetser
Sonnet. What the hell kinda name is Sonnet? My mom was into Shakespeare when she had me—a May birthday. I’m named after Sonnet number 18. Do you know it? ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,’ Jeze...
She was starting to see that there was nothing wrong with sometimes letting the day unfold according to its own rhythm.
Seeking to distract her from further questions, he bent and blew lightly into her ear. She shivered. This horse bites, you know. I think he likes me. Almost as much as you do. I don’t like you. How ca...
Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?I was a good husband to your mother, Pop said. I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first ma...
No more taking the Lord’s name in vain or even in earnest.
He was killed while serving in the military, during operation Desert Storm. She had only the vaguest recollection of the conflict. She had been in grade school when it was going on, and the conflict h...
Fine, then just tell me what I need to do. It’s your specialty, right? Turning a diamond in the rough into a polished gem. She regarded him skeptically. Assuming there’s a precious stone under that ex...
Feed your friends, and their mouths will be too full to gossip, Bubbie used to say. Feed your enemies, and they’ll become your friends.