When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

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.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.