Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.

Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.

Pick-a-lock, Pick-a-lock, you'll regret the day, When you took a mouse thief and locked him away, Silly cat, look at that, it's two for one, A thief and a warrior, by dawn will be gone.

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.