She's definitely one of the best pitchers around, if not in the state of Indiana. We are depending on her a lot. She's our only senior. We're depending on her for her leadership skills. We're looking for her to carry us in many ways.

We are loaded with young talent.

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.