People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.