I start by mulling a question and before I know it, a whole drama is unfolding in my head. Often, an idea sticks before I know what I'm going to do with it.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Happiness is what you choose to remember.

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.