Quotes from Michelle Huneven

That's pretty much why I'm a UU, Curtis. Because our ministers can be gay, trans, Buddhist, atheist, any race, or same-sex adoptive parents with mixed-race families. You name it. That's the future. Everybody's in." "Here's to the future," said Adrian. We all lifted our water glasses in a toast.

At one point, Jack was enlisted to move Red from his aunt Maude's house in Redlands to his grandma Iris's house in Pomona.

She'd be different," Belinda said. "She's a little intimidating," I said. "Like a strict teacher that you learn to adore." "Exactly," said Belinda. "Like you," I said. "Intimidating for years, and then beloved.

New ideas can come from older people, too," I said. "Maybe," said Jennie. "But they'd be different new ideas than the ones from people who are up on the latest theory." "I wouldn't assume these women are uninformed," said Charlotte. "Who's more wide awake than Doris?" said Adrian. "There is nothing old and outdated with either one," said Belinda. "Well, maybe not to you," said Jennie.

David Ibañez was in town. . . . Both he and Rafael suffered from terrible hay fever and nursed cups of a naturally decongesting tea made from the mahuang plant, brewing more tea for anyone else who needed it. David had brought the mahuang seeds from an herbalist in Shanghai, and Rafael kept a good crop of the low, scrubby bush in his yard at all times. He said it was the best hay fever treatment he knew, and whenever Santa Ana weather kicked in, he was the most popular man in the valley.