And if I see you step foot on my property again, I’ll do more than make a phone call, ” he says, waving the baseball bat around menacingly.

I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS - DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T EXPLAIN, THE BITTER GRAPES - ll available through Amazon and Createspace -

Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

Teachers influence more by what they are, what they do, what they represent and what they believe than by what they teach and preach.

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.