Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.