I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.