It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride..

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty..

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch..

Forget love. Try good manners..

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life….

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed..

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else..

Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?.

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be..

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds..

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only hav….

At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the f….

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise..

I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through….

Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when t….