Live Your Life As If

Live Your Life As If You May Lose Everything.

Approach Your Lives As If They Were Novels, With Their Own Heroes, Villains, Red Herrings, And Triumphs.

The First Four Months Of Writing The Book, My Mental Image Is Scratching With My Hands Through Granite. My Other Image Is Pushing A Train Up The Mountain, And It's Icy, And I'm In Bare Feet.

It's Funny How, Even Long After You've Accepted The Grief Of Losing Someone You Love And Truly Have Gotten On With Your Life, Every Once In A While Something Comes Up That Plays "gotcha," And For A Moment Or Two The Scar Tissue Separates And The Wound Is Raw Again.

When A Scientist's Son Or Daughter Becomes A Scientist They'll Say "wonderful! Wonderful!" So, Why, In The Name Of God, Would A Mother Be Jealous To See Her Daughter Become A Successful Writer?