Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.