The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.