When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic
Torta Crema (Italian Cream Cake) 1 stick unsalted butter, softened 1/ 2 cup shortening 2 cups sugar 5 eggs, separated 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup flaked coco...
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...
There were few forces greater than the power of a fourteen-year-old’s determination when she wanted something. A teenager would stop at nothing in order to get her way.
There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world’s real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confus...
Then you agree that you should keep me. With the smug satisfaction of an argument won, he propped his shoulder against the stall door. Her eyes picked him over as if he were a carved goose on a table....
The sea was his mistress, one with the power to heal, nurture, love, torture… or destroy at her caprice.
The human spirit could brave anything so long as there was some better future to believe in.
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...
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
Stay woke,
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.
Okay, did you know there’s a basketball court on the top floor of the Supreme Court building? Nobody knows that, said Fletcher. I do. Highest court in the land.
Now she realized that the key to happiness had less to do with setting up housekeeping with an appropriate spouse and more, far more, to do with finding someone who gave one confidence and peace and p...
No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves.
No creature should ever be trapped against its will, she used to say. It will ruin itself, just trying to escape.
My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination...
I’ve never understood tourism. Where is the value in standing by and watching others live their lives?