It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

We're finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.