And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.

Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake.

Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt.

All around us, birds woke up the sky.

But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.

I slept so long and hard that when my mother woke me the next morning I was a stranger to myself.

We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us.

As soon as they were spotted, one of the jerk’s buddies pointed at me and said, “Arrest her! She’s the one who killed Z

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way

A bachelor is only half a man

I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people.

Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.

If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.

You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.