Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I’m hoping hard for that.

Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

Some things go too deep for words.

it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses.

You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.