I am all the ages I've ever been.

Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.