“For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.” — Kaui Hart Hemmings Quote

“For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.”

“I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward.”

“Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.”

“My two sons are more excited about my father's birthday than him. Baba is a quiet person by nature and feels shy at any kind of celebration.”

“You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'”

“I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.”