My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.


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Steeleville, I think we kind of came in with our heads a little high, expectations a little too high...
ALLISON SPENCE
I am extremely happy with the playing (on Saturday). This was a tournament we thought that we could ...
ALLISON SPENCE
We had some rest even though we were down with injuries. I had one player out with a swollen thyroid...
ALLISON SPENCE
Allie really stepped up, and Allie was very strong (Saturday), she was great on defense. Allie was e...
ALLISON SPENCE
We rolled (against Christian Fellowship Academy). When the momentum is in our favor we are an extrem...
ALLISON SPENCE
I was pleased with the girls. The first game we held with them for a while.
ALLISON SPENCE
(The Lady Crusaders) were intimidating, even though we didn't really look intimidated. They just hav...
ALLISON SPENCE
It was definitely the most errors we've committed and they were setting errors. It wasn't our defens...
ALLISON SPENCE
Then, they took off on us.
ALLISON SPENCE
We went out in our (van) and we were just talking about how we had to stay focused. Even though ther...
ALLISON SCHLINKERT
We were just focused. We just had to keep playing our game and not worry about how they were winning...
ALLISON SCHLINKERT
You never come in expecting to lose. You're confident in your team and what you can do.
ALLISON SCHLINKERT
Our team this year gets along great. We hang out all the time, and we all are having fun.
ALLISON SCHLINKERT
It'll be a great team, and it'll be a great match.
ALLISON SCHLINKERT
I don't even know how to describe it. I'm just so incredibly excited. We played well. We stayed enth...
ALLISON SCHLINKERT
The album has a lot of true stories in there. We did three full tours last year, so there were a lot...
ALLISON ROBERTSON
It's very collaborative. We like to get everybody's opinion, just like we did we were in eighth grad...
ALLISON ROBERTSON
It makes you feel like, wow, there are people who aren't jaded, who enjoy watching rock music, havin...
ALLISON ROBERTSON
We needed a little more variety, some different tempos and textures. It was not a plan to go for som...
ALLISON ROBERTSON
Our manager expected us to throw things at him, ... but I said, 'I'll do it! Yeah!' and the rest of ...
ALLISON ROBERTSON
It's cool. I complain every summer that I don't get to go to fairs anymore -- I always used to go as...
ALLISON ROBERTSON
The female bond, I have to say,
ALLISON ROBERTSON
It teaches you to be considerate of people, to work together as a team to succeed and play off each ...
ALLISON NERMOE
I could see it from own my experience.
ALLISON NERMOE
It just sounded like it would be fun to see people grow and to help them get well. It'd be a new exp...
ALLISON NERMOE
I've been really happy with how they've played and they've really stepped up this year. Very proud o...
ALLISON NERMOE
I was kind of worried, but coach (Wiles) thought it was a good idea, so I did it and it was fun. I l...
ALLISON NERMOE
It provided quite a strong figure for Q3.
ALLISON MONTGOMERY
I think that it looks like what the market is doing is starting to look to Thursday's ECI and GDP nu...
ALLISON MONTGOMERY
I think at the moment what they are trying to do is limit yen strength, given the fact that Japanese...
ALLISON MONTGOMERY
Fundamentals will determine the level of dollar-yen, and the fundamentals still argue for a higher d...
ALLISON MONTGOMERY
It's not rocket science. I blush at calling myself an inventor.
ALLISON MILLS
I'm just gonna stay away from the caffeine.
ALLISON MILLS
I've found that people really want to help you. But at the same time you have to really put yourself...
ALLISON MILLS
We still haven't heard back (from the patent office). We had a dilemma. Wait two whole years (for th...
ALLISON MILLS
It was not very functional.
ALLISON MILLS
I've heard stories of people who have done this and who have a garage full of stuff that just sits. ...
ALLISON MILLS
Lindsay is a really good pitcher, and she has been hitting her spots. I think we fed off her energy ...
ALLISON MERZON
It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up.
ALLISON MERZON
We don?t have to put up a lot of hits to score.
ALLISON MERZON
This is the most balanced, the deepest and the best hitting team we ever had. We have kids on our be...
ALLISON MERZON
It's an absolute tribute to how hard Kim has worked.
ALLISON MCNEILL
No question she's got skills, some coach has to recognize it. One of the things she does is make oth...
ALLISON MCNEILL
She has an unbelievable passion for the game, a passion for work. She's really made herself into a g...
ALLISON MCNEILL
After the 2000 Olympics, veteran players came back wanting to pursue the goal of qualifying for a wo...
ALLISON MCNEILL
Our comeback in the second half was sparked by the contributions of the players coming off of the be...
ALLISON MCNEILL
It was a great effort to get an 18-point turn around.
ALLISON MCNEILL
It was one of our best defensive efforts of the summer,
ALLISON MCNEILL
The first big issue is 'if', because a lot of people are still talking 'if' - and that's a fundament...
ALLISON MCGEER
We know from the testing that's been done so far that this is not influenza, we know this is not SAR...
ALLISON MCGEER
SARS gave everyone … new respect for respiratory viruses.
ALLISON MCGEER
There are literally hundreds of viruses that can cause these types of outbreaks. It is still likely ...
ALLISON MCGEER
There are many other viruses it could be. The Ontario Public Health lab is working very hard on iden...
ALLISON MCGEER
Even though it doesn't prevent all illnesses, it is effective at preventing serious illness and deat...
ALLISON MCGEER
This year looks good so far.
ALLISON MAIRE