Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality..

... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse: If you knew early that yo….

Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimens….

Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood..

Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that gro….