I can explain why I have to do what I’m about to do, but I’m acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What’s bad is bad even if necessary.

Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges...

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one’s cow has exploded.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you...

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of...

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but that is not a bad thing. If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and...

…it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.

But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards stalking the storm, with Death opening the door to a luge chute and inviting me to go for a...

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.