An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will change.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

Landscape shapes culture

The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.