You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her onthat hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.

But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.