1. Sleeping beside someone I love is no small thing.
2. When I’m having my teeth cleaned, it helps if I pretend I’m being tortured and they will Not. Make. Me. Talk.
3. Pursuing a passion makes me feel childlike…wise…ageless.
4. If I sleep with my chin up in the air, I won’t get a wrinkled neck. (This has yet to be proven.)
5. Easier said than done…really is.
6. As I strive for enlightenment, I sometimes settle for kindness and that, too, is no small thing.
I love musicals. When an actor speaks of the love she has lost, I feel sad, but when the music soars and she breaks into song, I sob. For the first time in two years, I’m sitting in a cramped, plush s
Carolyn wrote that she was unfriending me on Facebook. Her initial friend request had been a mistake. She only realized this when I continued to post after her actual friend, also named Mary Sloat, di
I read the last page, close the book, feel a silly, delighted smile as I stare into the middle distance. Great middle grade fiction does that to me again and again and I find myself: astonished that a