Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases, and pleases where ever it goes.

We know you can’t change the past, yours or someone else’s.; but you can influence the future. Perhaps you can help a child who has an absent parent, just by showing you care about how they feel.

There are books of which the back and cover are by far the best parts

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Sometimes it takes jumping into someone else’s life to make you step back and look at your own and sort out the problems.

Icelandic poet Kristin Eiriksdottir speaks about her new novel – A Fist or a Heart. “It is about this woman who is very much in the world…she has been a very sort of functional rational person… and she is losing that grip…along with losing riches in her memory…. I don’t like the word ‘hallucinations’ – Read More

It’s not what happens to you that counts as much as how you respond to what happens to you.

“You can’t understand the history of Africa without understanding the travels of Livingston.” Petina Gappah shares her obsession in the making of her new novel – Out of Darkness, Shining Light. ” I’ve been thinking about this novel for a really, really long time…I got to know the mechanics of expedition life extremely well….My worry Read More

Remember in our journey of life that nobody makes it alone. You need to have a grateful heart and to be quick to acknowledge those who help you.

Paula Becker talks about writing her memoir, “For me it involved really trying to grapple with whose story this was; and ultimately I decided it was my story and I had the right to tell it.” Her book – A House on Stilts – Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction. “I didn’t feel ashamed Read More