I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must b…

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Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

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I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gav…

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Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty,…

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Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some i…

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Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better…

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I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole…

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Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

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Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of mu…

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