Upon finding about about giftedness, for the absolute first time in my life, I felt like “I had come home.” But there was also shame, a lot of shame.

Those who play safe never fail…but they also never succeed.

To get results you have to take chances. You have to believe and you have to try. And then you just might succeed.

The best of anything costs money and gives you no guarantees. But there is a reason why it’s known as the best.

When you finally stop sabotaging yourself, the answers materialize so quickly, you wonder why you were so busy tripping on your own two feet.

You can take charge any time you want. The only thing stopping you from doing so is you.

Fear will push you into all sorts of bad decisions that you will for sure regret…

Only after you strip your dreams down to the ground are you ready to face your writing career as it is: stark, unrelenting, but oddly beautiful in its truth.

Every aspiring writer dreams of becoming a bestselling author. It’s the carrot that leads the donkey on. It’s not good. It’s not bad. It’s just a carrot…

Then comes real life.

“Writing well” doesn’t make a good novel. For that you need to know how to tell a story…and as I discovered, storytelling was another beast altogether…

It doesn’t matter how far away you settle from your homeland—what you grew up believing will be the tortoise shell you can’t escape…

Stupid foreigner that I was to New England, the bittersweet vine looked gorgeous to me, until one day, my husband decided to rub in just how bitter, bittersweet could be…