If You Had Really Loved Something, Wouldn't

I Remember Three- And Four-week-long Snow Days, And Drifts So Deep A Small Child, Namely Me, Could Get Lost In Them. No Such Winter Exists In The Record, But That's How Ohio Winters Seemed To Me When I Was Little - Silent, Silver, Endless, And Dreamy.

I Am Unusually Halloween-attentive, Because, As It Happens, I Was Born On Halloween, So For Me It Has Always Been An Occasion Of Great Moment.

I Think Part Of A Hero Construct Is Overcoming Loss, Or Being Abandoned, Or Having To Make Your Own Way In The World.

When You're Researching You're Learning. When You're Writing, You're Teaching.

In An Interesting Inversion Of Status, The Reigning Breed In The Dog Park These Days Is The Really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street Or Its Equivalent. The Stranger The Mutt The Better; The More Peculiar The Circumstance Of It Coming Into Your Life, The Better.