In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.

I'm never afraid of research. I relish it!

Our real world has evolved. It's become something much different, and inadvertently about healthcare, and about what it means to have good health, and to be able to have good health.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted.

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.