I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.