Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.