Age has given me the gift of me, it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant tender-hearted wife to myself.

“I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because…”

“Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given …”

“Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger…”

“Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Z…”