The attention and accolades are wonderful. It’s so vindicating and it means a lot. But it doesn’t get up and write a sentence for you.

The secret to success for Lenz, the now-single mother of two: “I don’t ever quit.”

If we share our humanity, I think we do better in this world.

Painting seems to me fundamentally about joy – the child’s joy messing with thick gooey stuff, with the wildness of red, the coolness of blue, with putting your own mark

Writing started giving me this deep feeling of pleasure that was independent of anyone else’s opinion. 

My resolve returns. I won’t be deterred. The inner critic hunkers down, like my dog at my feet when I sit at my writing desk.

Dialogue isn’t just about spoken words. What the characters do with their hands and bodies as they speak or while the other person is speaking is just as important as

No one wants to admit their insecurity. Nor their relish.

It felt as if I had been allowed back on the playground but it was better this time.

As a self-taught writer and artist, I have been pulled between both passions since my teenage years.

At that very moment, I committed to making a practice of seeing and thinking small. Which I did. And since I am a writer, it was natural for me to

I can ramble until my sentences gel, molding the words and cadence and voice and structure like a sculpture.