Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much..

Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever..

Sometimes holding on was all you could do..

It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by….

I have often wished in the past few years that my mom were here to help me as I raised my own teenage son. As a girl, with my own mom, I thought I kn….

The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision clea….

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl..

It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs..

She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go.….

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It c….

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last..

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?.

When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters..

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives..

Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain….

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but t….

Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie." Michael leaned forward, switched of….

Popularity means people think they know you..

Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know..

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart..

It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her l….