Wherever It Is You Make Your Home,

Those Who Rhapsodize About The Ease And Joy Of Childhood Have Perhaps Forgotten What It's Like To Be 12 Years Old.

A Good Home Must Be Made, Not Bought.

The Portrait Of My Parents Is A Complicated One, But Lovingly Drawn.

I Have Long Observed That The Act Of Writing Is Viewed, By Some, As An Elite And Otherworldly Act, All The More So If A Person Isn't Paid For What She Writes.

Long After Salinger Sent Me Away, I Continued To Believe His Standards And Expectations Were The Best Ones.