Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

Some of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in my life have been things that I couldn't explain.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.