It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.