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.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.