Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.