Endurance; Survival

"Six thousand people applied to appear on the show, and not a single one was Jewish!" She asked me to help her understand this phenomenon. "After all" she noted, "wasn't it the Jews who survived the Holocaust?"

Trees don't talk, but they have a great deal to say. And one of the most amazing things a tree says is about survival

I remember looking at the doctor and thinking: "You are not G‑d. That is your opinion, but anything can happen..."

Yes, maybe he IS a nice guy, a kind father, or the all-too-familiar attempt at justification “he was abused himself” - but this is not an answer and in no way changes the situation. The facts remain that he is an abuser.

I am a mother. I'm just a different kind of mother. I did not give birth to my child. She was not young in age, but was nevertheless someone who needed to be mothered...

You have to admire that guy. One plague, two plagues, they just kept coming... But he stayed the course

Listening to and reading all the predictions and prognostications of Global Warming can be downright depressing. Will we be saying goodbye to our world sometime soon?

I walked unsteadily into the battered women's shelter with my baby in my arms...

I am full and empty. I lose the love, the joy, the security of an intact life. But I learned the beauty of surrender...

Our society has become increasingly focused on youth and external beauty. We have forgotten the value of wrinkles earned through life experiences...