What words best describe you? Sensitive, creative, thinker, mother, wife, dog owner, yogi (although I don’t practice as much as I’d like)
What is it that inspires you? Coffee, the ocean, my friendships
What are you most grateful for? The mother I had
What important values do you live by? Love hard, be your authentic self, be kind, keep your word
Life is…hard and wonderous
Love is…oxygen
Work is…fuel but only if it’s work you love
Biggest achievement so far…I’d say two: having my first book, Good Hair, be a bestseller and the top selling novel for Simon and Schuster when it was published in 1996. The second is of raising two children who are just great—kind & smart.
Most impactful or favorite book…Impossible to pick one. It would be written by James Baldwin—perhaps his Collected Essays
Least favorite word…classy
Where do you see yourself in five years? Living between two places– one on a beach and the other in a manageable city. I will be a relaxed, empty nester, doing yoga everyday and running my newly created Writers House, where I’ll teach writing workshops.
