Quote of the Week:“Activating empathy in my reader is my motivation for writing. I want my writing to elicit understanding, therefore kindness, love, compassion.” –Mira Ptacin in Poets & Writers What I’m reading:Fault Lines by Emily Itami What I’m listening to:Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy by Dani Shapiro I’ve also — Read More

Quote of the week:“I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking books and the stars. I started listening to the teachings of my soul.” –Rumi What I’m reading:Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life — Dani Shapiro What I’m listening to:Friends and Strangers — J. Courtney Sullivan I — Read More

Quote of the week:“…we read fiction because it suggests that life has a shape, and we feel…consoled…by that notion. Consoled to think that life isn’t just one damned thing after another. That it has sequence and consequence… Fictional narrative [makes] life seem to matter…it [pushes] away the meaninglessness of death.” –Sue Miller What I’m reading:Adultery by — Read More

Quote of the week:“Being yourself is a continuous effort. There is always another expectation placed upon you, another person pulling you toward their preferences, another nudge from society to act a certain way. It’s a daily battle to be yourself, not merely what the world wants you to be.” –James Clear What I’m reading:Monogamy by Sue Miller (I’m — Read More

Quote of the week:“Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.” –Paulo Coelho What I’m reading:Monogamy by Sue Miller What I’m listening to:What You Don’t Know by JoAnn Chaney What I’m watching: — Read More

Quote of the week:“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” –Jonathan Safran Foer What I’m reading:Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy — I’ll finish this tonight and I’m already sad about that. I love her writing What I’m listening to:Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder What I’m — Read More

Quote of the week:“Living things tend to change unrecognizably as they grow. Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? Flora or fauna, we are all shapeshifters and magical reinventors.” — Diane Ackerman What I’m reading:Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy(Since I loved her — Read More

Quote of the week:“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact.” –Cassandra Clare What I’m reading:Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution — Adrienne Rich What I’m listening to:Know My Name: A Memoir — Chanel Miller I also listened to Glennon Doyle’s podcast episode about parenting and really loved it. What I’m watching:THE OLYMPICS! — Read More