On Being Alive

“Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer,

is ultimately about asking yourself,

'How alive am I willing to be?''"

(Anne Lamott)

On Embracing Writing

Before I wanted to be a mother. A traveller. An actor. A teacher. A healer. Before I wanted to be anything at all, I wanted to be a...

Does it count? When she's eight years old, in the bath, and her older male cousin walks in and watches her bathe and she says, “please...