...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.