I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.