People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.