My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.

But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.