...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.

Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled