Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.