Motherhood changes everything.

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.

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.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling