I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen when we're waiting for the phone to ring, or the email to pop up in our in box. They don't happen when we're gripping too tightly. They happen - if they happen at all - when we've fully let go of the results. And, perhaps, when we're ready.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.

Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.

It's not gender-specific, but I do think it's women who tend to start having that sort of little whispering voice of "I want more here" and "I want more for my family."

My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.