You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.

I am especially fond of you.

City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.