Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just write a chapter and that's it. You must constantly return to it. You must dote on it. And even if it's saying something ugly about who you are, you have to find the poetry in it. You have to find the poetry in yourself.

We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.

Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.

I used to consider myself to be a cineophile, and then I had a daughter. Ha! Now I barely see any movies.

I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that our past lenses of contextualizing events don't work - they cease to matter.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.