I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.

I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see all the incredible inventions I know will be out there, but I'd be able to understand the science behind them!

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.