One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to..

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your ve….

I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. Howe….

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having ….