[The Alphas] have historically been pioneers, ... We've always broken new barriers and taken new steps.

She has taken as many as 12 steps before crashing.

I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one hundred, two... yes, you'll do nicely. A cracked companion makes me look more whole, gives me something outside myself to care for. When I'm with whole, healed people I feel my own cracks, the shatters, the insanities of dislocation in myself.

The gate wasn't unlocked. It was broken or taken off.

Historically, steelhead would come back to spawn in the winter over three, four and even five months, depending on the stream. They would arrive around Thanksgiving and continue through March.

We've been very impressed by the creative steps he's taken here in St. Petersburg to try to make a difference in the quality of public schools.