Your mother won a special reward, " she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

Rogerson, " I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea, " he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

Battling busyness is a community response.

The pimple is perfect.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind.

I grew up listening to old soul

I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.