Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools

Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.

Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.