Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

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

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

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.

Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.