I smoked for many years like a total idiot.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

The fascinating thing about food is that if you have issues with it, you have to face it every single day.

We are human beings, not ants.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment, the blocks, the financial struggle, our egos, I do it too, I do it too, but if you can't remember it is all about the work and nothing else then I can't help you and you can't help yourself and you will lose. I promise you. You will lose.