Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy life.

Work and happiness are like mother and daughter; work brings forth happiness, but hard work brings forth great happiness!

The students adore your father,’ a perfumed woman said to me. ‘Aren’t you lucky to live with such a charming man!”He’s even more charming at home,’ Mom said. ‘Isn’t he, Bea? He rides a unicycle...

“Mom, Arnie Welsh keeps calling me a geek. He says it like it’s a bad thing. Is being a geek a bad thing?””Of course not, Soda Pop. And don’t listen to labels. They don’t matter.””What...

once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of hair pins pony tail fasteners, stashes of powders, colonies of tiny lipsticks (p.39)

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?…I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that...

STAINSWith red clay between my toes,and the sun setting over my head,the ghost of my mother blows in,riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord,riding on a honeysuckle breeze.Her teeth, the keys of a piano.I play...

I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he’s not, my mother said.