Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.

I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile.

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.