I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.