It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?

(Actually now I’m remembering that the goodbye chow isn’t spelled that way. It’s ciao or something weird like that. It’s Italian, right? But I’m not an Italian gypsy, I’m a hungry gypsy. So spelling it chow makes total sense.)

Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!