What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if w….

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66].

As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for….

He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu..

The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it a….

I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about….

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacl….

My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) ….

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others..

Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, an….

There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have communi….

It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, ….

Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God'….

I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it..

I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects..

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming….