They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

Things last so much longer than people.

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.

Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.