Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

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.

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

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.