My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this..

I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life..

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers ….

Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries..

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available..

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted ….

Overwhelm, panic, and wanting to flee were states of being in my everyday life as I tried to figure out life on my own, in the city I had grown up in….

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book..

To me, magic is everywhere..

I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers.".

Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me..