My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other,….

Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks..

There is ecstasy in paying attention..

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be compl….

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it..

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers..

Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrass….

I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped..

So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dul….

Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and liv….

Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do….

My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted..

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but….

The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at ….

We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women and men in the face of this? Why do we let o….

Being enough was going to have to be an inside job..

Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive..

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet..

I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me..

This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into t….

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on….