Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

Might as Well Laugh ...remember ...when ...Life ...made ...sense

the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.

When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.

And this is a kiss like none before, a kiss that could overcome the dark of deep space night. It's a falling star, flame, ice. It's pure as water from a snow-fed mountain spring. This is what you dream a kiss to be. To have a kiss just like this each and every day! How satisfying life would be.

Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall.