I don't think it was as much me against him as much as it was our two teams against Mother Nature.

My family is all coming in for a family reunion, including my 84-year-old mother. This is our family thing, and we don't plan to go anywhere unless it gets a lot worse.

It's not too often around here that you find someone with the lacrosse experience he has.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

Ignorance is the mother of devotion

Like Mom, Zoe thought–like Mom used to. And that’s where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poetry suffused with twilight and questions. It’s not even good poetry, she thought. I don’t have talent, it’s her. I should be the one ill; she has so much to offer, so much life. “You’re a dark one,” her mother said sometimes with amused wonder. “You’re a mystery.