Aus / Out Besitzen / Own Erhalten / Get Freude / Joy Gründe dafür / Reasons Haben / Having Kinder / Children Kindheit / Childhood Kindheit / Childhoods Mein eigenes / My Own Mich selber / Myself Viel / Much Zuerst / First
I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.
When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.
I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back.
I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own, I hate them with a passion.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.
