They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.

Harder The will of God, Greater The blessing will be.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

The right use of color can make any composition work.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.