If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care. But when Newton’s apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell towa….

What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?.

No matter how many vitamins you take, how much Pilates, you'll lose your keys, your hair and your memory..

Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain..

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat fi….

Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a gr….

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the g….

There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being ….

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, ….

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal..

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the ….

I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't….

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you..

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave..

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life..

Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip..

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you….

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can….

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal..

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible..