Dear mother, I’ve been thinking lately about the looming school year and also about this oppressive heat, how every living thing seems to wither under...

Belief isn’t always easy. But this much I have learned, if not enough else— to live with my eyes open. I know what everyone wants...

So many friends’ children begin school this week, and as we fumble our way into our own year, I admit I’m a little sad to...

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life. ― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese ——————- “a...

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. ― Mary Oliver, Something I’ve been thinking about this poem lately, a timely reminder for...

. . . Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I...