Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and dec….

On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading, her favori….

...she waited until she and my grandfather Anthel were just home from their honeymoon, and then sat him down and told him this: "Honey, I know you li….

My favorite was Love Is...Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to apologize for s….

I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of i….

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid….

I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because it cant be described or expl….

My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of s….

They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I saw it, was to watch televi….

Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streak….

Contrary to popular opinion, my dad was not a lazy man. He was not lazy at all, for instance, when it came to Going Places In His Truck. He was also ….

What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp..

But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all..

I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says..

My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone..

Decoupage hit Mooreland pretty hard..

Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising..