As we pause today, feeling the weight of history and memory, honoring the terrible losses of 2001, I also hold tight to the memory of that all-too brief moment when the whole world felt united in our humanity, rather than enraged by our differences.

This is what all my creative work strives for: stories of aliens, angels, wicked spirits, dogs, cats, and human beings, all finding the ways they can connect, to remind us (me) that we are, deep down, kin.