Something Is Always Happening Somewhere.

All Parents Damage Their Children. It Cannot Be Helped. Youth, Like Pristine Glass, Absorbs The Prints Of Its Handlers. Some Parents Smudge, Others Crack, A Few Shatter Childhoods Completely Into Jagged Little Pieces, Beyond Repair.

I Find Interesting Characters Or Lessons That Resonate With People And Sometimes I Write About Them In The Sports Pages, Sometimes I Write Them In A Column, Sometimes In A Novel, Sometimes A Play Or Sometimes In Nonfiction. But At The Core I Always Say To Myself, 'is There A Story Here? Is This Something People Want To Read?'

People Are Only Mean When They're Threatened, And That's What Our Culture Does. That's What Our Economy Does.

Adam Hid In The Garden Of Eden. Moses Tried To Substitute His Brother. Jonah Jumped A Boat And Was Swallowed By A Whale...man Likes To Run From God. It's A Tradition.

We All Lose Somebody We Care About And Want To Find Some Comforting Way Of Dealing With It, Something That Will Give Us A Little Closure, A Little Peace.