The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river.

The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river.

Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what read more

Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what is needed to make their payments and avoid the foreclosure process.

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going read more

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and read more

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.

No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power.

No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power.

We didn't have any hope, either.

We didn't have any hope, either.

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. read more

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.

I kept thinking to myself that we had just one last week.

I kept thinking to myself that we had just one last week.

In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside.

In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside.