I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
Tayari JonesRemember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to write it, it probably means you need to write it.
Tayari JonesAnd this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the bottom of a steep hill. Mother had no hand in this, only heart.
Tayari Jones