Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.
This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?
God is found in this Life. . . to wait for another is folly.
Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground.
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
Love makes everything that is heavy light.
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe.