It's a great time for bird watchers. The Canadian-South American migration has started. We get bird watchers here all the time.

It's like a huge jackhammer. This place would crush big blocks of concrete - like you tear up from the highway - and make gravel out of it. It sounds like a noisy business and a dusty business - and it is.

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

Hunters need to remember that there are many other folks spending time outdoors during early September, ... so we need to be considerate of other recreationists.

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.

There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.