Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.