I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away, fascinated by my own busyness. I want to turn all this over to You slowly, carefully, examining every fragment as I pass it off, so there'll never be any question about it again. Every time I've dumped and run, I've nearly always run back and snatched it out of Your hands. Help me in this.......Right now, I'm certain of only one thing - that You love us, and that's where we all have to begin.

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.

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.

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

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