Grace Episcopal has always had a super speller on its team, Ron Walker. He won't be in it this year because he said he thought he'd give someone else a chance. So anybody could win this year.

This is a fun event. Nobody is a professional speller, but neighbors and friends can get together and just have a great time.

I really like words and I like to make them fun. Being an actor, teacher and a playwright, words are pretty important.

For to do things with care is the closest thing to love that I know the cape of grace falling softly about the shoulders as we focus on the task at hand whether it be to listen or to leave or to learn.

He was very accepting of everything and everyone. You could call it simplistic; his daughter Grace ... calls it, especially near the end of his life, fatalistic. He just loved to compete anywhere, anytime.

By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure