In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?

Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.

...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.

I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.