I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

I had a dream about you. We were ice fishing in my freezer. I caught a few cold beers, and you wondered if we should drink them, or throw them back because they were babies.

Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.

Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish.

...an' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking.

Turns out, theres not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.