The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

Nantucket is a place where some kind of magic happens, it's where I met my husband 32 years ago, and we've been together since the day we met. It's the kind of place that when people come here, they think they'll be happy. I see people falling in love or recovering from some conflict here, and I wanted to capture that.