Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

All roads out of hell lead home.

If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?

In short, Daniel was once again a member of a family. Viewed from without they were a strange enough family: a rattling, hunchbacked old woman, a spoiled senile cocker spaniel, and a eunuch with a...

The place of horror turns out to be no more than a green scoop, sometimes shadowed, sometimes shining with the bilberries and grass within it, as if a mouth had opened from which streamed a...

Love is the reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror…

As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS…

I missed my mother’s father. Is that even possible? Maybe I had fallen asleep for a while. Maybe I was like her, just waking up and looking for him to be there. I wondered how...

Maintaining connections with family and community across class boundaries demands more than just summary recall of where one’s roots are, where one comes from. It requires knowing, naming, and being ever-mindful of those aspects of...

My husband says this longing for isolation is not a good quality, that if I wanted to be a hermit I should have moved to the West Coast and adopted a lot of cats, not...

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. (“The Higgler”)

I promise you, the right man won’t care.

To nebyl sen, Lynne. To byla vzpomínka.

I have no riches in life, but only family who loves me.

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

your gonna meet new people, but be careful most of them are 2 faced. But remember the most important people is God and family aren’t 2 faced so look up to the ones that are...

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

[Jesus] stands between us and God, and for that very reason he stands between us and all other men and things. He is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and...

The conception of marriage that he formed as a young person and envisioned as an adult has been marred by circumstances that he believes could have been overcome without divorce. Yet, he still believes in...

Aber hey, es ist ja nur eine Familie. Es ist ja nur meine Familie. Es ist ja nur alles.

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I...

Make a wish,” said Indigo.Rose made a wish and then asked, “Why?””That’s what I always do. Wish on the moving ones.””Does it matter how fast they move?””I don’t think so.””Can you wish on airplanes, too?””Oh,...

Perhaps that’s a smile on Delia’s face-but Delia’s half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, “Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.

Maybe it’s just a daughter’s job to piss off her mother.

My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. ‘I think it was very...

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

I want to bill Billings one penny at a time.” He died with five cents to his name. I was named after him—fifty years after him.

Was that really all there was to love? Darkness undone, a hand on your forehead. In the meantime all you could do was wait–tired, alone, the minutes as long or short as a lifetime–for the...

Power & Money are fruits of life! But Family &Friends re roots of life! We can manage without fruits, But can never stand without roots.

Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls “Knock and Pray”. He says parents should invite their kids to unscheduled times to “pray… big”.

My niece just turned one. I gave her a birthday card that read, “If you can read this, Happy Birthday!

It’s so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it’s harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.

It’s not that parents love their children less than in generations past. It’s that they no longer receive consistent societal support for the belief that parenting is their highest priority…TV messages championed rather then detracted...

I had a great view of the sunset. At least until father went and changed the channel. Dammit, dad!

Meow.

Last weekend I went out of my comfort zone to go hang out with people I’d only heard about, and I met one new person who turned out to be a very valuable contact. I...

My ashtray is full, the carton of cigarettes is empty, and I just cremated grandpa. But I never inhaled—or told him I loved him.

I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn’t always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters,...

I have to put in all this time to make up for the vacation we’re going to take this summer.” I bet if I asked your kids, they’d say that they’d rather have you home...

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

Kau lahir penuh harapan dan kau memberiku sedikit harapan itu.

You don’t build a family by tearing down another one.

I don’t know. I know only that in your own way, you inspire us.

If personal romantic and sexual behavior ends up being public, affecting public institutions and taxpayer funds, it’s fair and reasonable to debate the issue, right?Not according to many who favor alternate lifestyles. They would rather...

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who...

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.

Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down

To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be...

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

He is deemed an inappropriate guardian, whereas my parents who neglected us every day of our waking lives were always deemed appropriate guardians on account of the DNA issue. No one wants to separate children...