May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.

One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down."

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.