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

In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.

The truth is in the present moment.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.

I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.