Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him? When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?