I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."

Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

To me, magic is everywhere.

Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.

I think the hardest thing is to know what you want, ask for it, and then to stop talking.

Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.