Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip.