Alexandra Adornetto

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

At one school I visited, everyone had read 'Halo,' and they were all dressed up as angels - with halos!

The subject of angels and demons really grabbed me. There is a huge mass of information, and the Bible is one of the most amazing reference points.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.