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.

Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?" Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.

Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

Men don't traipse. We... Swagger

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.