Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

I read, therefore, I matter.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.