What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.

the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something altogether new is created, something different from the limits of my own skills and imagination. Something that is a marriage between your heart, mind, and body - and mine.

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

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.