It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.