To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?

“Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her ow…”

“Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of r…”

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start s…”

“...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”