Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

I'm falling into disrepair

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.