Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.