I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.

I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.

I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.