It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.

We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

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.

The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.