There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.