Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

I realize it’s commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, ‘I love you, but I don’t always like you.’ But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down...

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

Per quanto ammirevole, il tuo bisogno impellente di sacrificare l’esistenza per il bene di un’altra persona poteva dipendere dal fatto che quando avevi la vita interamente nelle tue mani, non sapevi che fartene. Immolarsi a...

At only ten a.m., Edgar found himself already eyeing the Doritos on the counter. One thing he hadn’t anticipated about the ‘home office’ was Snack Syndrome; lately his mental energies divided evenly between his new...

We all do it (or I used to-yes, once in a while, Franklin, what did you think?), we all know we all do it, but it isn’t customary to say, “Honey, could you keep an...

There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role–hero, heroine, or villain…. Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of...

We’d been assured it wouldn’t be painful, though she might experience ‘discomfort,’ a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn’t yours.

Pregnancy had seemed a reasonable excuse for letting her metal-smithing tools languish, but that accounted for only eighteen months of the last twenty-six years. Motherhood wasn’t the real problem, though it took him a long...