Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar.

I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways of gratitude: Indians thanking the deer they'd slain, grace before supper, kneeling before bed. I was thinking that gratitude is too much absent in our lives now, and we need it back, even if it only takes the form of acknowledging the blue of a bowl against the red of cranberries.

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs