When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

I love meeting booksellers and readers and hearing how they've read and received my stories. Often I'm surprised by which characters they've loved best, what scenes have stayed with them, what connections they've felt between my characters' lives and theirs.

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.