Who tries, does. Who wills, can. Who loves, lives.

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.