Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

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.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

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

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.