A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth.

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

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

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

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

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.