I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

Laughter is carbonated holiness.