I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.

This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright