Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else..

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me..

Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an ear….

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look ….

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell..

Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In p….

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are..

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom..

Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life..

it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after y….

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier..

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming t….

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred..

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just ima….

It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dye….

The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the….

People ask without wanting to know..

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment t….

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history..

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accep….

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out..