Pain engraves a deeper memory.
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony wh...
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that...
It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled.
The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.
All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.
Families that feel together, heal together.
We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.
A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed.
I only had to drop acid once to know that Timothy Leary was right about questioning authority.Motorcycling is like life. There's nothing solid about it. Something not even the asphalt under your tires...
It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.
There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.
Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the...
Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him--they were part of his road, the infinite range of experience th...
I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple.
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.
In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become fre...
I also get that we women in particular must work very hard to keep our fantasies as clearly and cleanly delineated from our realities as possible, and that sometimes it can take years of effort to rea...
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