To say I’m honored to be in conversation with one of my literary heroes is an understatement. 

I remember reading Salman Rushdie’s award-winning novel Midnight’s Children at age 16. It was an unbearably hot summer in Tunisia, and I devoured it in what seemed like a single 48-hour stretch while lying on a cool tile floor.

I can’t wait to ta…

It would be my pleasure to talk dog with you 😁

Dealing with people’s response to my cancer has been as challenging as the disease itself. People I’ve known for ten years or more just melted away, and although it was amazing to me just who did show up, I am still nursing the disappointment I feel about the other ‘friends’.

At the same time I was in hospital a friend lost her 16 yo son to Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, and I have been troubled by the fact that even her own father and sister refuse to show up for that, accusing her of indulging i…