We don't have anyone who's a 'superstar,' and it's good not to have one of those. We can all play as a team.

The games we've played so far have been evenly matched. We've only lost because we didn't execute right. No team that we've played should've won. It was because we beat ourselves.

I found out Monday night. One of the assistant coaches called my house saying, 'Drop everything and get over here.' This is a great opportunity and I'm glad I was invited.

I think we have a good chance to win again if the girls play as well as they did on Tuesday.

You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos.

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.