I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

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

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

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

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