What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.