Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?

And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.