"Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful." — Sophia Loren Dread I waited months after getting engaged to shop for a wedding dress. I dreaded the thought of the wedding dress shopping. I did not want to go into a ...

Rain so dark I/can’t get through—//train going by/in a hurry. The voice/said walk or die, I/walked,—the train//and the voice all/blurry. I walked with/my bones and my heart/of chalk, not even/a splintered notion:/days of thought, nights//o...

“They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never hea...

We wander and think no one will ever find us. And lifting our sorry head, we are next to each other. - Mark Nepo The step to others urges us to begin. Beginnings are powerful. Not that there is a competition between the importance of beginnings...