I Have A Big Mouth,

I Have A Big Mouth, And Over The Years, As The Eldest Of Five, I Have Had A Tendency To Speak When No One Really Cared.

I Like To Think Of What Happens To Characters In Good Novels And Stories As Knots--things Keep Knotting Up. And By The End Of The Story--readers See An Unknotting Of Sorts. Not What You Expect, Not The Easy Answers You Get On Tv, Not Wash And Wear Philosophies, But A Reproduction Of Believable, Emotional Experiences.

I Like Doing The Readings And The Autographing, But The Interviewing Gets A Little Tedious Because You Get Asked The Same Questions Every Day And Sometimes Three Or Four Times A Day.

Too Many Of Us Are Hung Up On What We Don't Have, Can't Have, Or Won't Ever Have. We Spend Too Much Energy Being Down, When We Could Use That Same Energy – If Not Less Of It – Doing, Or At Least Trying To Do, Some Of The Things We Really Want To Do.

Look, As My Mama Always Said, 'one Monkey Don't Stop No Show.