Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

With destruction comes renovation.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.