If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. - Anne Lamott

one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.