If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.