I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.

I saw one movie in theatres in the first 18 years of my life.