Quote of the week:“We’re young, until we’re not. We’re healthy, until we’re not. We’re with those we love, until we’re not. Life’s beauty is inseparable from its fragility. ” —Susan David What I’m reading:The Loneliest Polar Bear: A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World by Kale Williams What I’m — Read More

Quote of the week:“There’s a point…when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” –Ursula K. Le Guin What I’m reading:Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David What I’m listening to:The Push by Ashley Audrain“Reframing Sensitivity” (podcast)“Being a Highly — Read More

Quote of the week:“Virginia Woolf said that writing a novel is like walking through a dark room, holding a lantern which lights up what is already in the room anyway.” ― Margaret Atwood What I’m reading:Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski What I’m listening to:Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir — Read More

Quote of the week:“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light.” ― Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead What I’m reading:What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster –really liking it What I’m listening to:A — Read More

Quote of the week:“…things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.” –Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life What I’m reading:Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid — just finished last night; an enjoyable read, like all — Read More

Quote of the week:“After love, forgiveness is the strongest glue holding every family together.” — Leesa Cross-Smith  What I’m reading:Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (so lucky to get an early copy of this one!) What I’m listening to:A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaCall Your Girlfriend podcast: “Burnout“The Double Shift podcast: “The Childcare Game-Changer“Fab Fertility — Read More

Quote of the week:“Literary novelists are slightly defensive about being repetitive. I think it is perfectly justified: you keep doing it until it comes closer and closer to what you want to say each time.” — Kazuo Ishiguro (this quote helped me understand why I  continue to explore grief in my novels) What I’m reading:This — Read More

Quote of the week:“The reason it’s worth it is because you’re giving a gift to readers. You’re giving your best thought, your best feeling, your best technique. And it’s not about fame; it’s not about fortune. It is about giving with generosity. Because this is how we repay the richness we have received from the — Read More

Quote of the week:“Putting together a novel is essentially putting together the lives of strangers I’m coming to know. In some ways it’s not unlike putting together my own life. I think I know what I’m doing when in truth I have no idea. I just keep moving forward.” — Ann Patchett What I’m reading:The — Read More

Quote of the week:“There is this existential loneliness in the real world. I don’t know what you’re thinking of what it’s like inside you and you don’t know what it’s like inside me. In fiction I think we can leap over that wall itself in a certain way… There’s a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at — Read More