But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want.

I'm putting the island in a trust so that only blood relatives can live on it for the next 360 years.

The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's brown.

I've owned a lot of crap in my days -- rental houses and strip malls -- but we finally got this place, and it's worth all the crap.

I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it.

I had no business living through that.