The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices new experiences. – Henry Ward Beecher An author friend of mine told me last week that when her kids were in their early teens, they were in horrible competition with each other and they argued all the time. She said she had to figure out how to make them
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Let us build for the years we shall not see. – Sir Henry John Newbold I saw it in her eyes first, what I expected to see. That flash. “No, Dad. That’s wrong.” Of course, I can’t blame her. I’d told the story “right” as many times as any story I’ve ever told. And I probably should have written this story down
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The most important thing you can do is a lot of work…. – Ira Glass They need to slow down. Sitting with the other parents in the little orange plastic chairs at Charlotte’s cello lesson, I have to force myself to be quiet. The teacher is trying hard to get the other kids (the boys) to go
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“How often it is difficult for most of us to give solitude any sort of priority in the kind of life that we live today. How we avoid it; how we are frightened of being alone; how easy it is never to let it happen; there is always something or someone to fill the void, even if it is
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Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. – Donald Miller I used to love Don Miller. I’ve had many writing heroes: Hemingway. Anne Frank. Alex Haley. But after Blue Like Jazz, I felt like Don really got me. He’d written what I was
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