Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.