One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

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

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.