“You can still live with grace and wisdom, thanks … partly to your own innate sense of what you must do with the resources you

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.” — M.F.K. Fisher   My mother came into

“Take the goose, pull off the feathers, make a fire about her, not too close for smoke to choke her, or burn her too soon,

“Sometimes when you … smell the honest exciting smell of real bread baking, you remember a part of your childhood, and feel a child’s helplessness

The first time a man chased me I was jogging. I was a senior in college and ran the campus perimeter at night after I

After college, I packed my car and moved across the country to go be in love in Ohio. Six weeks later, I called my mom

“Appetite, a universal wolf.” — Shakespeare(Epigraph to “How to Keep Alive” by M.F.K. Fisher.) “Joy’s soul lies in the doing.” — Shakespeare(Epigraph to The Joy

The Liar had left his house open both weeks he was in Sacramento. The first week, I fed his cats. Monday evening of the second

Tuesday night, sitting on the edge of my bed, I called the Girlfriend. “I’m going to end things with the Liar in the morning, now

The next morning, I laid awake in my bed, remembering back a full week, to the day the Liar had left for his first trip