Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.