Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.