Until I was eleven, we had an outhouse. The only plumbing in our home was a hand pump in the kitchen sink that we had to work vigorously until...

In addition to the enchantment with language and storytelling, there is the fact that I wouldn’t know what the hell to do if I were not doing this. Some leisure is fine, but not an unrelieved diet of downtime. I’m also writing to ensure that our foundation–which focuses largely on organizations for the severely disabled,…