A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.

In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only a day to go, even by my standards. I spooned the...

My Son, Only Tax and Death are for sure.

I had a dream about you. We were running on the beach, holding hands. It was a nude beach, but we were the only ones wearing clothes. You wore a bikini, and I wore my...

He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I’d always know even if I never saw him again.

Christian men ought not refrain from the sexual pollutions that surround us because they object to lovemaking; they refrain because they object to the wanton vandalism of it. Our culture is doing to sex what...

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

I had a couple of friends in high school. And by a couple I mean my parents.

When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families. In time, all of our wins and losses in the workplace will be...

I lost my virginity in the back seat of a Buick. Not because I’m a romantic, but because my grandpa and grandma were in the front seats.

Were you aware that my sister looks like my brother? They both look nonexistent.

The piece of junk is a piece of me. It’s a part of my family, and I can’t part with it. The rusty can is all my father left me when he left us to...

I’d like to change my name, as my father isn’t worthy of having the same last name as me. I’m a rebel without a because.

Allowance.

A monster’s not a monster to another monster. At least that’s what I thought when I saw my mother-in-law talking to a statue of Stalin.

How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?

Even though our past has a lot to do with who we are today, remember; all that we think, say and do today has everything to do with who we become ~ Donald Pillai

We’re family, right? We foul up and say we’re sorry and let it go.

Johanna sat by the fire every night and worked on her tapestry. Dumfries waited until she was settled in her chair and then draped himself across her feet. It became a ritual for Alex to...

A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

The priceless gifts (life, love, joy, goodness, family, nature) are freely given by the Creator.

The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.

Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society.

And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change...

I guess there’s a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that’s what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother’s mother. Your father’s mother’s mother’s mother. I hardly knew her. I didn’t have any interest in knowing...

God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus’ steps.

Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another and building a successful family is like building a home. A successful family based on unity, forgiveness and love takes careful planning,...

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it’s not gender that makes a family; it’s love. You don’t need a mother and a father; you don’t necessarily even need two parents. You just...

It had to be the hardest thing, even if he’d never known it himself – to accept that the ones you loved would find their own way home.

I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.

But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there’s very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

You don’t do that. You don’t just leave your family. Sticking together… it’s the only way to survive.

Of all the titles that I’ve been privileged to have, the title of ‘dad’ has always been the best.

There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru’s saw. My father–my real father–is a limb that got axed off the family tree a long time...

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.

A family is a mystery.

I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn’t seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just...

Applying parents values back to them allot of the time is like trying to pay back a guy who is a counterfeiter with his own counterfeit bills. “No, your supposed to think this is real...

Un des problèmes essentiels qui se posent à propos de la femme, c’est la conciliation de son rôle reproducteur et de son travail producteur.

Let today mark a new beginning for you. Give yourself permission to say NO without feeling guilty, mean, or selfish. Anybody who gets upset and/or expects you to say YES all of the time clearly...

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.

Through no-fault divorce, one parent can now declare unilaterally that the marriage has “broken down” and invite the state in to take control and remove the other parent without the parent having committed any legal...

It’s always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

Sure, Nico had mixed emotions about the camp. He’d felt rejected there, out of place, unwanted and unloved … but now that it was on the verge of destruction, he realized how much it meant...

Don’t deny your parents a chance at happiness and also an opportunity to see you achieve greatness.