Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

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.

When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

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

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.