I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

He just wanted to stand close to her, touch her hair that was white as glacier milk...

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us.

Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.

My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.