That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

I read.. because one life is not enough

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.