“Not everything's funny, Mother.""No," said Leola, "so I guess when you can laugh,, it's all the sweeter.”

“Not everything's funny, Mother.""No," said Leola, "so I guess when you can laugh,, it's all the sweeter.”

“Not everything's funny, Mother.""No," said Leola, "so I guess when you can laugh,, it's all the sweeter.”

“The sun was as flirty as Scarlett O'Hara with the Tarleton twins, breaking through the clouds in spectacular bursts that seemed like personal favors and then retreating for hours, days, and making us all ache for just a glimpse.”

“Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that "in the beginning there was light," but to me, it was always an incomplete sentence, which God should have known to ammend: in the beginning God created light...to read by.”