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

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

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

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

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.