There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.