Don't Worry About How Pretty (the Story)

My Mama Taught Me That Anything Worth Doing In Life Should Be A Little Scary.

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.

We Get Divorce, We Get Conned, Someone We Love Dies, Or We Can't Find Anybody To Love Us Or Somebody Breaks Our Heart And We Realize This Fairy Tale Ain't Fair. So We Suffer.

I Can't Stand That - Those Women In 'waiting To Exhale' Now. I Can't Stand Them. But That's Because I'm 53 And Not 33. But What They Were Experiencing At 33, I Identified With It.

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.