I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.