Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.