I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.

Fate isn't one straight road?there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

I'd been a wedding singer through college but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad I thought 'Oh God if this is all I do I'll never be able to live with myself.'