Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.