I was happy with the team's development, but I believe we also let ourselves down in a few areas that could have paid good dividends if we executed properly. The most encouraging thing to come out of the performance was how competitive we were with such a limited preparation.

The team has made a lot of progress since coming together in New Zealand (in a 2005 test series). It's now a matter of building on those improvements so we can consistently beat the nations that we come up against and enable us to qualify for the World Cup.

Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.

Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.