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- Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's…
- If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you…
- I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
- I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
- We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation:…
- I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
- Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with,…
- I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach…
- I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was…
- No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again...…
- I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her…
- I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she…
- I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to…
- I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been…
- My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another.…
- My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the…
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