One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.