Laura Miller
Laura Miller
Laura Millerserved as mayor of Dallas, Texasfrom 2002 through 2007. She did not run for re-election in the 2007 mayoral race. She was the third woman to serve as mayor of Dallas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 November 1958
CountryUnited States of America
butterfly feelings flying
It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.
past way ifs
The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.
leaving gone doe
Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.
mistake writing editing
Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November.
towns small-town
Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.
perfect kind made
Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.
life-and-love mean drunk
Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.
past haunting determined
The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.
war fighting journey
Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.
sadness passion first-love
We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.
people complaining literature
People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.
falling-in-love book shapes
The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with...
grandmother smell air
A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.
book buying portal
Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.