cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.