I get rational when I panic.

I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.