She was always writing, tending to business, up until the last few months.

She was always writing, tending to business, up until the last few months.

Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm read more

Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm confused.

We had a pool among the coaches. Would John Neal get a free throw, or would Shawn Taggart get an read more

We had a pool among the coaches. Would John Neal get a free throw, or would Shawn Taggart get an assist first.

I'm personally not against billboards, but I am worried about the looks within the city limits. I see billboards as read more

I'm personally not against billboards, but I am worried about the looks within the city limits. I see billboards as more of a process of, as you're coming into town, wanting people to stop and service our businesses, buy their gas and stuff like that. Once you come into town and get into high density growth and mini-stores it becomes more of a distraction and a nuisance.

With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night read more

With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night and a team like Phoenix is resting and waiting for you the next night. That's tough. So you run into some circumstances like that more, it seems, on the road than you do at home.

Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, read more

Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, even those who go to local shelters, are risking their health and safety.

Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. Copyright doesn't protect ideas, and copyright doesn't protect facts. read more

Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. Copyright doesn't protect ideas, and copyright doesn't protect facts. . . . A number of people can write novels based on the same idea and still have freedom of expression.

Didn't make no money today, but I'll just go to the next one.

Didn't make no money today, but I'll just go to the next one.

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.