Occupation: Poet Birth: November 30, 1944
Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood..
If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the ritual brushing of teet….
It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable ….
Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it..
Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful..
We all fear change, even as we seek it..
Kids want nothing more than for all the important adults in their life to get along..
It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it..
There are some things for which there is no apology, and on the question of slavery, there is no adequate apology for ripping people out of their hom….
the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely..