The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.