I didn’t think anything actually [before],” he nods. “And now I ask many questions. Because I don’t know what I will do in such a situation.

I used to use the brush before that time before 2015, but then I gave it up for a while. Now I’m back on the brush, so that’s the truth.

Two days ago. To move to New York.

July 2018, when I married my third husband, Roger, after two years of proclaiming that marriage at 76 was stupid.

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer’s a good idea.

At 3am, worry seems to be my default mode.

Oh yeah. In finishing this book, the last thing that I did, I read every story aloud and made some changes in every one of them.

It just matters how you respond to that having your confidence shaken, that makes you what you are.

I’m just practical. Life comes first for me; art second. Sometimes art comes even later than second.

I used to tell Kristina, “I choose to be married to you every day.”