one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.

Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.