If I'd Learned Nothing Else, It Was

It's Not That I Bounce Ideas Off Of My Children As Much As It Is That Having Children Has Had A Profound Effect On The Way I See The World. They Have Mined My Soul. They've Made Me A Better Person And Therefore A More Empathetic Writer.

I've Never Thought There Was Anything I Could Hope To Get By Praying For It.

Basically If You Burst Into My Office The Walls Themselves Will Flutter As If Alive - Maybe That's The Reason For All The Wings In 'pure.

No Matter What Losses Happen In A Given Season, The Red Sox Always Have Next Year.

Sometimes When Reading Aloud To My Husband, I'll Start Crying. It Completely Stuns Me. As If The Words In My Body And On The Page - In Relation To Each Other - Are Cocooned Against My Own Feelings About What I'm Writing Until They're Loosed In The Air And Become Their Own. Then I Realize What I May Or May Not Have Done.