Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.

There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water

Long week. Long month. Long life.

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