Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

by Shauna Niequist

I had thought that we became a family the day we were married. What I have found, though, is that the web starts as just one fine filament on that day, and spins and spins around us as life presents itself to us day by day. And on some days, the strands spin around us double-time, spinning us like a top and binding us like rubber cement.