It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

Depression is always in the details.

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.