Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.

Just because it's true, I say as often as I can in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."

It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.

Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.

It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.

What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.