Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have community and family, but existentially we are deeply isolated.

I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.