Rebecca Wells
Rebecca Wells
Rebecca Wellsis an American author, actor, and playwright known for the Ya-Ya Sisterhood series, which includes the books Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere, Ya-Yas in Bloom, and The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
good-man trying forget
Forget love. Try good manners.
suffering size mosquitoes
we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.
cooking used knows
Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you ...
flower islands canada
Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.
sweet forgiving praying
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.
writing memoir stills
But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.
ambition anxiety want
I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.
remember persons
There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.
fun sadness having-fun
Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.
years tales edges
What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.
gratitude believe blessing
I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.
sweet motherhood sisterhood
How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.
taken mean beloved
I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.
kindness car stories
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.