Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North