More than half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer, is rewriting. I wouldn’t say I have a talent that’s special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind ofstamina.”                           - - - John Irving   When I was writing my first book,...

  I was doing my four mile walk with my ear buds in, listening to a book on tape. The author was a woman whom I consider my coach and spiritual teacher, Pema Chodron, and she was talking about gossip. In her usual humble way, she was using her own life as anexample. I...

My Love Affair I have a love affair with writing. It’s the last thing I think about before I fall asleep and it’s the first thing I think about when I wake up. Every morning, I sit at my computer, put my fingers on the keyboard and let them fly across the letters. It...

This blog isn’t about politics. I don’t use my blog in that way because whatever we believe, we all have the same emotions: joy, depression, pride, shame, winner and loser. This blog is a reminder about our history and how our ancestors fought for our rights. It’s...

When I hear the word, “magic,” I think about someone shuffling a deck of 52 cards and randomly pulling out the one I chose. I think about a woman in a fancy costume, mesh tights and high heels, lying calmly inside a box, smiling, while someone is apparently sawing...

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.                                       - - - Albert Einstein I was sixteen when I was accepted into a professional ballet company. I’d started training when I was eight and I’d grown up in a ballet world, in the...