Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

He was raised without a proper diagnosis.

As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he'd promised her, making the father angry?

Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.