I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

We are powerful because we have survived

Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.