It's just so hard to feel good, you know?" I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

I fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.

you come home, and everyone talks at once and everyone asks questions, but no one waits for the answers.Instead they talk about themselves, what they've been up to, what they're going to do next, as if you're a photo on the wall.And then they talk to one another, forgetting you've jsut flown in, forgetting you're in the backseat, forgetting they've already said it all.