My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental...
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual...
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit...
If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in...
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go...
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
