Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

Nourish the world with your words, yo.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.