“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

“Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow--a test you can't cheat on.”

“She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything.”

“I first felt myself a shaky axis between worlds when I watched my grandfather move those prophetic queens.”

“The rhythm of researching and querying holds all the fascination, endorphins, and residual scarring of picking a scab. It's a habit I easily fall into but without more than surface level ambition driving it can turn into a haphazard, oozing mess.”

“Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing," originated from a sense of soul loss.”

“What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.”