I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do. So, it's usually not too, too hard.

At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.