Spider or gum? Spider or gum? I thought quickly trying to come up with a believable excuse when I blurted out, “I swallowed a spider!” What? I swallowed a spider? What the hell is wrong with me?!

I threw my hand over my mouth and blurted out the first best excuse I could come up with, “Morning breath!

We were walking that tightrope between friends and something more...

I was spinning—from the kiss, the alcohol or the lack of air, I wasn’t sure, but I knew I needed to pull away if only just to breath.

I could practically hear the unspoken ‘good girl’ accompanied by a pat and scratch behind my ears like I was his obedient pet.

My fingers itched to touch, my lips begged to taste and my body buzzed with a frenzied energy, but my mind screamed to move far away from him fast.

Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth.

In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.

Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

I'm lucky, always hopeful... I love my life.

Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life.

Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

I pray as much as possible.