Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

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.

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.