I think now that both parties are going to be talking, we can get an extension for the people who are living here, and we can get them some financial assistance to help move their trailers.

You hear people talking about everything from pastured poultry to goats to heirloom tomatoes to all kinds of things. But there's no silver bullet.

Obviously, it touches detectives and officers in a special way when you're talking about people who cannot fight back, who cannot defend themselves against someone like this.

You cannot look at the success of black people by seeing who is on the front of Ebony magazine or by looking at Oprah. When you consider that only 1 percent of all business revenue comes from black-owned businesses, you have to ask yourself if this class disparity is the kind of society we want.

Since the first of the year, people been talking about the possibility of this game. It's exciting. It's been a fun year. We're 12-0, No. 2 in the country, playing for the national championship. It doesn't get any better than this.

Writing is such a solitary endeavor. It gets people interested in and talking about writing.