Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

he's a story i want to know from page one

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

Try a little tenderness.

Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.