Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

If it's important, your heart remembers.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.