Together we gazed out over corkscrew switchbacks cut through a barren, rocky landscape stretching to the horizon. It was simultaneously awesome and insane to be in this spot as a family, though, for a flicker...

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

There was nothing I wished I’d said to him. There was nothing I wished I hadn’t said.

Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn’t, family that wasn’t family...

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

device” (as I have called it) was learned in part from a very young age from her parents.

How rude of me, we haven’t even introduced ourselves. We’re the Andersons. I’m Evan, the lovely size-zero lass in the floppy sun hat is my wife Amy, and these are our best friends/children, Evan and...

Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father’s pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.

Born in the 90s and raised in a deserted rural area by a single mother with 2 brothers, a sister and a couple of cousins – you know; a normal Zulu family of the 21st...

Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

Nona was as wacky as they came.

In communities, at work, but particularly in families, people are put together in something like a three-legged race. God means us to cross the finish line together, and all the other people tied together with...

My mother-in-law got so angry at me she vowed she’d never speak to me again, and I smiled and gave thanks for the little miracle God worked in my life.

Filial respect caused Grey to hesitate in passing ex post facto opinions on his mother’s judgment, but after half an hour in the company of either Paul or Edgar, he could not escape a lurking...

For every wounded warrior, there is a myltitude of family, friends, and communities who are forever changed.

There’s life after divorce, Sarah,’ my father proclaimed, not that he’d ever been divorced.

I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?

I have a spreadsheet of all the women I’d like to spread and sheet. Your mom is on my list. So is your grandma, may she rest in peace.

It doesn’t matter what story we’re telling, we’re telling the story of family.

Maybe I will buy my nephew an aquarium for his next birthday. It’s got to be better than the bathroom sink, which is where my brother is keeping him now.

No more than two to a tricycle, please. When I said family fun, I didn’t mean this is a place to start a family. (Children over 65 eat free.)

Never plan a picnic’ Father said. ‘Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

I never knew my father. I saw him at a party once, but he never walked over and introduced himself to me.

A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren’t real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be...

She has never tried to find out what happened to her family — her mother or her relatives in Ireland. But over and over, Molly begins to understand as she listens to the tapes, Vivian...

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest...

You’ve all been so sure that life is good that I’ve never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will...

It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to...

It’s hard when you’re missing your family,” Pip said, and started the motor. ” You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.

Flea stared at us, “I can’t decide what’s worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose.

We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials. We hardly noticed anything but our little family whose ties weren’t loosening at...

Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our home. She presents food and drink to customers there, and says to me, “I mount the...

Your impact on the lives of others–your family, the people at your church, your workmates–is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Somecan breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some...

With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life.

Then Henry speaks again. “Did he do it?”I turn to him slowly. “Does it matter?

She had a weird, fleeting thought that she wanted to eat her sister, like a sorceress in a storybook – gobble her down into her belly, keep her safe.

It pleased Aliena that they were all together: she and Jack and their children, and Jack’s mother, and Aliena’s brother, and Martha. It was quite like an ordinary family, and Aliena could almost forget that...

I love you, Tess,” he told me, tightening his arms around me as if he would never let go.He’d better not. We’d never let go of each other — not Jayden and me, and not...

Single parents – both women and men – can play as critical a role as the traditional two-parent family, and gay and lesbian parents can, and do, raise happy, resilient children. When it comes to...

All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes, do you know what I got with a family of nine? When ever we said let’s play poker, we had a full team of adults right there.

Diabetes is passed that way — over and down, like a knight in chess.

Ain’t nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you can’t understand her. Love her. That’s all you gotta do.

Friends are family members we have a choice over.

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity.” ~ Ralston to Simon