In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.

What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

What molds us is what maims us.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.