Internet access is a basic human right. The words of my friend -- a charter member of the Wokenoscenti, those who have been placed on this Earth to provide the rest of us with the correct opinion on every social issue -- was a Statement of Fact, engraved on a stone...

The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self... Nothing is absolutely dead: every meaning will have its homecoming festival. -- Mikhail Bakhtin We are each the weighted average of every person who...

Worrying does not accomplish anything. Even if you worry twenty times more, it will not change the situation of the world. In fact, your anxiety will only make things worse. -- Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace,...

Every year you pull the same trick on me. You say you're going to hold the ball while I kick it, but you never do! You always pull it away, and I land flat on my back! -- Charlie Brown to Lucy Each year Charlie Brown pelted toward the football with the deluded...

Last year a friend brought some tumeric roots back from Mexico, and gave us a pair. We planted them late. The leaves came up and grew a bit, then died away. I assumed that we would never see the tumeric again, and that Tumeric would be entered into our ledger of...

A girl sitting on the other side of the pool lowered her book, took off her sunglasses and looked at me. She was so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud. She was unquestioningly gorgeous. She was a dark unyielding largess. She was, in short, too...