Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.