The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready..

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?.

Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the tree the hardest. All the people I love are down ….

My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I ca….

A clock only turns one direction.

Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up….

What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to….

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind..

The best cure for sadness is doing something..

I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's ….

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from whic….

Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the goo….

Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think..

How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever..