Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony..

Morning always comes..

I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of pep….

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please..

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations..

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen..

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating….

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you..

It's what you do that makes your soul..

Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of sha….

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise..

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time e….

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions..

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day y….

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are wor….

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go..

But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom..

I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone d….

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life..

For scientists, reality is not optional..