Sunday Inspiration: What am I looking for?
“If you are looking for verses in the Bible with which to support slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to abolish slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for for verses…
Read MoreFinding Big Lake
Proman and I developed a number of ways to cope with the pandemic. I know many of you did, too, and I’ve been delighted to hear your tales. Here’s one of ours. In addition to jigsaw puzzles and growing vegetables on our lanai, walks together became a favorite event this year. These were not the…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Happy Mother’s Day
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Worrying is worthless
“If you are ruminating about the past, or worrying about the future, you will completely miss the experience… The past is finished. Learn from it and let it go. The future is not even here yet. Plan for it, but do not waste your time worrying about it. Worrying is worthless. When you stop ruminating…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Things you live and die for
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Be joyful!
“To be joyful in the universe is a brave and reckless act. The courage for joy springs not from the certainty of human experience, but the surprise. Our astonishment at being loved, our bold willingness to love in return — these wonders promise the possibility of joyfulness, no matter how often and how harshly love…
Read MoreComing Soon(ish): The House Guests
Coming soon(ish)? Or is that later(ish)? The way we choose to view the timing for the debut of The House Guests, my latest book from Mira, depends on many factors. Until recently June 29th seemed years away to me. After all, time’s been moving slowly this past year, one day fading into the next with…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: A single glorious thing
“In my own worst seasons I’ve come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full,…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Happy Easter!
Easter is a special time to celebrate birth and renewal. Wherever you are, whatever your religious convictions, I hope you enjoy a lovely spring day and the promise of joy and beauty in the months ahead.
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Beware of destination addiction!
Beware of destination addiction, a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.–Robert Holden It’s so easy to fall prey to “destination addiction,” isn’t it? Especially…
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