The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

I found my voice in books.

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.