I Think Living To Be One Hundred

Teaching Literature Is Teaching How To Read. How To Notice Things In A Text That A Speed-reading Culture Is Trained To Disregard, Overcome, Edit Out, Or Explain Away; How To Read What The Language Is Doing, Not Guess What The Author Was Thinking; How To Take Evidence From A Page, Not Seek A Reality To Substitute For It.

Love Is What Makes Two People Sit In The Middle Of A Bench When There Is Plenty Of Room At Both Ends.

How Will You Use The Years God Gives You? Will You Be Remembered For Being A Fault-finder? Or Will You Be Known For Your Quick Smile, The Laugh Lines Around Your Eyes, And The Twinkle Deep Within? After All, God Gives You Your Face, But You Provide The Expression!

I Don't Have To Figure Out Why Or How Or When. God Has A Plan, And I'm Committed To It. That Commitment Frees Me From Having To Worry About The Details.

Motherhood: If It Were Going To Be Easy, It Never Would Have Started With Something Called Labor.