There’s a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don’t receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving…I held fast to that fact too, held fast and then, in the last seconds, let it go. I released my thanks into the air like birds, with the hope that, if they didn’t f...
At the sight of Willow’s face as she surveyed the array of pies on the marble counter, I asked, “Have you had pizza before?” “Yes,” she said, quickly, never taking her eyes off that counter. “Three times. At both cross-country end-of-season dinners and once in Italy, but that one had potatoes on ...
No way. We just needed a little time to regroup and strategize a plan for getting Judge Biggs to listen to us. We tried to think like generals or chess players, although sometimes, I admit, we just had conversations like this one:Charlie: “I bet if the judge’s got a light inside him, like the Qua...
IN A sleeping bag. In a tent. Lying on the rocky ground, next to the rusting tracks of an abandoned railroad. Before we’d bedded down the night before, Jare had made sure to tell us the story of the poor people who’d tried to build the railroad long ago, only to be defeated by the sun, sand, and ...
Dan Fertel and Arturo de los Santos, for help with all things medical; and Rebecca Kraus, for the aspirin bottle story; My parents, Arturo and Mary de los Santos, whose love and support mean everything to me; And those to whom it is my shining luck to belong: my children Charles and Annabel Teagu...