Kristin Hannah

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.