I Just Wanted to Be Normal

At sixty, I published a book called I Just Wanted to Be Normal. There is something slightly ridiculous about the

There was a lot of uncertainty connected to my father when I was a child. Sometimes he came. Sometimes he did not. And I waited.

Some people become strong because life asked them to be. What happens when childhood survival skills follow us into adulthood?

As a child, I thought normality belonged to other people. Years later, I began to understand what I had really been looking for.