We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.

We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail....The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.