Living is a terribly humiliating proposition. If you make it through a single day without embarrassing yourself or feeling mortified for someone else, you’ve absolutely beaten the odds.
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Living is a terribly humiliating proposition. If you make it through a single day without embarrassing yourself or feeling mortified for someone else, you’ve absolutely beaten the odds.

In my opinion, the Barbie Dreamhouse bathroom is a huge waste of square footage.

There are times in life that we are reminded of the invaluable importance of a moment. Brief, fleeting, murmurs of time seem insignificant, but they are anything but. We may never understand this as clearly as when the invaluable nature of the moment of difference between making it to the bathroom just in time and making [...]

In this life there exist moments so filled with kismet and wonder that the cynicism life has inflicted upon us is completely forgotten. Precious, brief, fleeting moments that allow you, even if only for a passing glimpse, to believe in the divine magic of the universe or some significance in planetary alignment. Perfect unexpected moments [...]

My next novel is now finished, and I am in the process of seeking representation. This can take some time. In some cases, it's more than a year before you hear anything back from agents and publishers. I wanted all of you to know what it is about and that, regardless of how these submissions [...]