Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.

For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.