Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

No matter what time of year I come here, people always say the same thing: Its not usually like this.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

... and people are to march around the church to commemorate the event, Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greeted with applause and with palms. People thought he had come to overthrow the Romans, but ... no ... he had come to change THEM ... and that led to things turning bad.

I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.