Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
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I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.
Tags: who, value, society, people
I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
Tags: sheep, black, i-am, family
You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life
Tags: time, priorities, life-and-living, family
I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.
Tags: life-affirming, hope
Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am
Tags: poetry, life
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