This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.