We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.