I Like To Tell Young People -

I Have Been Through A Lot Of Medical Trauma. I Was Diagnosed With Breast Cancer .

On Tv, Stories And Events Are Finalized In 30 Or 60 Minutes, Or Neatly Tied Up After A Season Or Two. The Best Stories Are The Ones That Force Us To Come To Our Own Conclusions And To Explain Why We Believe In Our Conclusions.

Nobody Gets To Pick Their Time To Die, But Living Every Day To The Max Is Something We All Get To Do.

I Wrote The Book Don't Die, My Love As I Was Going Through Radiation, So It Certainly Has An Air Of Authenticity About It Because I Was There. I Think All Of My Books Took On Kind Of A Deeper Tone When The Lady Who Wrote About Cancer All Of A Sudden Had Cancer. I'm Doing Well. I Went Through It All And They Said, 'you're Fine."

I Wanted To Write About The Third World And Had The Opportunity To Go Live In The Trenches, So To Speak.