Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1970
The one thing I'd thought of is that we spend most of our lives in survival time. There's a sense of hanging off the ledge, trying to tread water, tr….
Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave a place for the st….
I think I had a lot of small epiphanies along the way. What I really got out of the experience is a sense that there's other ways of living your life….
You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms yo….
Sometimes you have to whisper to be heard. Our culture is very much one of "bigging it up," always upping the noise level in order to produce a loude….
One thing that stress does is make us ungenerous, so we constrict, we look after our own. We get solipsistic and go into our own narcissistic spiral.….
I wanted to talk about certain things in a way that I hadn't seen them talked about. There is vast literature about caring for people romantically, a….
If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no ….
I wonder what kind of environmental consciousness is to be developed in a family or a community where nature is seen as either an optional thing, not….