But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.