But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.