If Life Is A Loom, The Pattern

The Muse In Charge Of Fantasy Wears Good, Sensible Shoes. No Foam-born Aphrodite, She Vaguely Resembles My Old Piano Teacher, Who Was Keen On Metronomes.

You Know How Chickens Are, Imagining The World Coming To An End One Moment, Then Pecking Corn The Next.

After Seven Years Of Writing - And Working Many Jobs To Support My Family - I Finally Got Published.

Using The Device Of An Imaginary World Allows Me In Some Strange Way To Go To The Central Issues - It's One Of Many Ways To Express Feelings About Real People, About Real Human Relationships.

I'm Convinced That Imagination Is At The Heart Of Everything We Do - In Art, Science, Even Astrophysics And Higher Mathematics. Imagination Leads Us To Ask, "what If?"