One stop. As bad as we played those last four minutes, we still had a shot to win it with read more

One stop. As bad as we played those last four minutes, we still had a shot to win it with one stop.

She's not going to be charged because she's a victim and she's scared. It wouldn't serve anything to put her read more

She's not going to be charged because she's a victim and she's scared. It wouldn't serve anything to put her in jail.

It's great when they call us and tell us what's going on, and they are excited about a new life read more

It's great when they call us and tell us what's going on, and they are excited about a new life free of addictions. Most addicts don't want to be addicts.

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern read more

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's read more

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

Hopefully, this thing subsides and he's going to be able to toe that slab here before the year is over, read more

Hopefully, this thing subsides and he's going to be able to toe that slab here before the year is over, but we have no projected date for him. There's no way he's going to be able to take the ball in Anaheim.

When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 read more

When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 percent under water. When this happens we can't get our work done, but we can put up with it until the end of February. Then we have to get back to work. When there are breaks in the storm, that allows the water to drain and we can work around that. But when it is just continuous, then we get in trouble.

ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.

ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.