From spiritual connection springs kindness, connection, social activism, and love.

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I’m feeling.

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

There's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the writer has to be able to transcend the life, to see it as if standing outside of it, in order to be able to make something of it. There's something enormously satisfying and gratifying about crafting something, taking all that chaos and giving it shape.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.