My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

don’t mistake a new place for a new you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.