A Person Who Deserves My Loyalty Receives

It's Not Only Children Who Grow. Parents Do Too. As Much As We Watch To See What Our Children Do With Their Lives, They Are Watching Us To See What We Do With Ours. I Can't Tell My Children To Reach For The Sun. All I Can Do Is Reach For It, Myself.

For 25 Years, I Did Take My Responsibilities As A Pleaser Of Others Sufficiently Seriously.

I Have No Doubt That Over The Years My Children Will Find Plenty Of Things About Me To Criticize. But Something Tells Me That Twenty Years From Now Not One Of Them Will Sit On Some Therapist's Couch Complaining Because Their Mother Didn't Spend Enough Time Vacuuming Up Glitter.

I Think Of Myself As A Realistic Writer, Not A Creator Of Soap Opera Or Melodrama.

Before I Had Children I Always Wondered Whether Their Births Would Be, For Me, Like The Ultimate In Gym Class Failures. And I Discovered Instead... That I'd Finally Found My Sport.