But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing; a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.

I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.

Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe 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.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.