Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.

Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.

We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.