The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.
Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.
That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.
As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along. . . that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through, it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president that it might close.
If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
I read the greens in Spanish, but I putt in English.
People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.