Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.

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.

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.