Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

Money Can’t Buy Happiness but It Beats the Hell out of Poverty

My mother remains unmatched in quality, competent in business process, and is never contested for any faults

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

The horse world is populated by two kinds of people: those who love horses, and those who exploit horses and the people who love them.

To be young was very heaven!