No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

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.

butterflies were wind energy made visible.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

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

Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.

Write as if your parents are dead.