Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

Writers who don't read can't write well. It's that simple. The more you read, the better you read, the better you'll write. The upside is that you can't read too much, and even 'junk' reading can be constructive.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

My reading life is like an airport where a bunch of planes circle in a holding pattern, then - boom, boom, boom - several come in for a landing.