If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle

My greatest strength as a writer is that I'm a storyteller. But, it was a long, hard struggle for me to make the transition from verbally telling stories to writing them. You'll note I don't dwell on descriptions in my writing, because I'm far more interested in telling the story. There are many better writers in this world, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more passionate about stories than I am.

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.