Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.

I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the neck, the one I had first seen him wearing in the jail the...

It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

We tell you, tapping on our brows,The story as it should be,As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.

My life is hard. No one would rob me of that. The clothes I am wearing came out of a knotted up black plastic trash bag from a resale shop downtown. And not the downtown...

No, Papá, I’m not drunk. I’ve thought about this for a very long time. I think it’s the right thing for me, a way to follow God.

Sin” Sinclair was an unapologetic people-watcher. As a sports consultant, working with some of the biggest and most recognizable athletes in sports and business, he had to be able to read the smallest nuances of...

Kevin looks at me and I know he isn’t seeing the little girl I use to be, all pigtails and gangly limbs. He isn’t seeing my mother’s daughter or even my mother anymore. As his...

He grumbles incoherently, opens the window a fraction and continues to smoke away. It’s like every time Sidney Drake enters a new location he has to readjust the atmosphere, akin to one of those sci-fi...

It’s easier to spew hatred, but actually watching yourself doing it is a whole different story.

I really, really need some help and advice. I’m scared… I’m scared of my own home, of my own daughter!

What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows...

Time can be cruel if you don’t use it wisely ~ Imani Wisdom, Zion’s Road: A Love Story about Faith and Redemption.

Viktor, what?

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent’s own independence.

We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.

We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

Live today. You never know when tomorrow will be a day too late.

There is more important work to be done here. The strong must lead us into a new energy age before our world dies out. Who’s going to do that? You, Caleb? Your face bears new...

It’s sad really, trying to appreciate all of the great events in our lives and all the amazingly good days. Sometimes it seems like we take them for granted, until something bad comes along to...

Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the...

The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!

Tethered to the universe by tendrils of history, with threads of continuity descending to God knows where, I see that I’m more than the dust I’ll become.” This quote is from my novel, “Whispers from...

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

Love is the net profit on life.

Non capì, comprese. Perché comprendere era di più, era un abbraccio, era prendere con sé, era farne parte.

Are you all right,” he whispered, his lips brushing the tips of my spiky hair. Granted, I knew he was only being discreet so as to save poor Hillary from being reamed again, but my...

Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can’t be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book.” Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.

Next to God, Family is the best thing.

Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I...