Quote of the week:“In the words of the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, ‘You take it all in. You let the pain of the world touch your heart and you turn it into compassion.’” –Pema Chodron What I’m reading:My Daddy is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer by Lena Derhally (getting — Read More

Quote of the week:“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” –Cynthia Occelli What I’m reading:What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins–just finishedWhereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri–just started What I’m listening to:The — Read More

Quote of the week:“Sometimes I think,I need a spare heart to feelall the things I feel.”― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos What I’m reading:When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema ChodronWhat Comes After by Joanne Tompkins What I’m listening to:The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth What I’m watching:I haven’t been watching much lately, — Read More

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