Everything is calm, happier, and less stressed. As soon as you drive into the park, it’s like you’ve entered an oasis.

I don't have the perfect roadmap drawn out, but I do know which roads I'll never drive down again.

You can’t take anything in life WAY too seriously...Even the serious stuff!

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.

With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.

While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.