Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

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.

I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.