Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.

I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.