I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.

Forgiveness is the path to healing.

I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.