We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.