Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.
Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.
Here words can kill - literally.
When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of everything. However, for me, the great joy of writing is that it has allowed me to travel the world in search of stories.
We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.
One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.