For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'