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

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

Forget love. Try good manners.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

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.

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.