Activity

GOOD BONES

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
es…

You say you want to forgive. Have you?”

Someone will ask that, I’m sure, because I ask myself all the time. How do I answer?

—I could say it’s difficult to forgive someone who hasn’t expressed remorse. I could counter with questions: Why do I need to forgive someone who doesn’t seem to be sor…

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

—Lidia Yuknavitch

One day, it hit me: The best things to happen to me individually were the worst things to happen to my marriage.

And then, this: But the best things remain.

I’d packed my sadness, despite its enormous size. Each day I lugged it down to the beach with my towel and beach chair and sunglasses and paperback and sunblock and water bottle.