When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.

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

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others and stand in the center of our power. Translation is a theme. Fear and courage are a theme.

Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.

The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.