The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is, individuals often don't have the resources to take care of older people as they age. This is something that is happening, and we have to deal with it. It was happening also in my life.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.