We're on the way up. I want to win (the state title). I won't accept anything else.

It was the week of the sectional, so we were fired up all week to practice hard and fix all the little things.

I'm just taking it one match at a time. He's on my mind, but I don't try to focus on another individual.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.