Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful. I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a life, start a business and find love in a place so far from home. Ireland has never been more beautiful - the perfect setting for this story filled with humor, hope and possibility.

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.