I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.