There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline..

To think is not always to see..

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then w….

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper..

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he ….

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer..

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me..

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one..

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts..

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain..

Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some ….

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise..

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single….

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden..

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in..

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic..

Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this mi….

Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language….

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be a….

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hand….