Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk Winston the Wonder dog and have my breakfast, I head to my office. Every single day. Sometimes, when I'm working on revisions, I print off my manuscript and go to a coffee shop to work. But mostly you can find me in my office.

If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.