Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.