Room to Write: Christine Gilbert on choices & change & juggling it all

This is the cleanest room in my house. The rest of it looks like a lego-action-figure-cereal-craft-project explosion happened and the only survivors were these half-crazed wild beasties, otherwise known as my children, and on his best days, my husband — assuming he’s not feverishly pounding on his laptop making what we now call “movie magic” which is another word for “losing your mind”.