when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.

We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.