In Many Of My Books, I Explore

It Seems To Me That We Can’t Explain All The Truly Awful Things In The World Like War And Murder And Brain Tumors, And We Can’t Fix These Things, So We Look At The Frightening Things That Are Closer To Us And We Magnify Them Until They Burst Open. Inside Is Something That We Can Manage, Something That Isn’t As Awful As It Had A First Seemed. It Is A Relief To Discover That Although There Might Be Axe Murderers And Kidnappers In The World, Most People Seem A Lot Like Us: Sometimes Afraid And Sometimes Brave, Sometimes Cruel And Sometimes Kind.

Every Character Is Asking: Whats My Place? Why Am I Here? I Dont Want The Answer To Be Just Because. You Find Your Own Purpose. Each Finds The Reason To Be Here And How To Contribute.

As Readers Can Probably Tell From My Books, I Love The Outdoors.

I Once Fell 20 Feet From A Tree, Was Knocked Unconscious, And When I Picked Myself Up And Straggled Home, My Parents Thought I Was Making It Up. However, When My Brother And I Fabricated A Story About An Encounter With A Bear, They Believed That! So Maybe I Learned Very Early On That Fiction Was More Interesting To Listeners!

Life Is Like A Bowl Of Spaghetti. Every Once In A While, You Get A Meatball.