I could feel the beginning of the story gathering in her throat. Stories are that way, like storms. If you pay attention, you can sense them in the air.

Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

A column about errors will contain errors.

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

Borg's won Wimbledon four straight times and out there he has just lost an 18-16 tie breaker. You'd think maybe once he'd let up and say forget it. But oh, no way.

There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.

In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.