There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.

People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.