While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, ….

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child..

There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and which both supports an….

The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always d….

Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was ….

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically….

When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people ….

It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older….

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rule….

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning..

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live..

I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention;….

Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliter….

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I mi….

Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And s….

Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family. I have discovered….

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others..

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well..

Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them subst….

You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a cor….