Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.