Shannon Ellison’s Reviews > Even Cowgirls Get the Blues > Status Update

Has she got you smoking and drinking? Good! Creativity feeds on poisons. All great artists have been depraved.

Life is essentially playful. Of course, it plays a bit rough at times. Maybe life is like a baby gorilla. It doesn’t know its own strength. Sometimes one gets the idea that life thinks it’s still living in Paris in the 30s.

But plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn’t be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.