Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.