Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.