My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
And it can be a way of healing.
Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.
I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.
I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.