I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.

When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.