We had to start and stop, on command, with three minute writing intervals. I can still remember the stories I wrote. I can still remember the nun yelling at me to put my pencil away, because she had said stop, but I was determined to finish my story.  That Nun (Sister Mary Lawrence) truely disliked me, I could feel it then, and still remember her condesention toward me today.

But she was an honest teacher and, in all honesty, I must say I really was and still am a dreamer. At the end of the day the only student in her classroom she dubbed a writer and storyteller was me. I will admit there were a lot of other kids that were smarter than me, but none of them a natural storyteller.

Being the daydreamer I am, I went on in my life to do just about everything else but write. I studied the things that interested me: art, music, photography, cinematography, aduio engineering, electrical engineering, even the martial arts. Holy Mackerel! . . .  that's just part of the list.

I started writing full time about 15 years ago. Now, at 65 I can honestly say, It's  been a long and winding road but writting is one thing I've never tired of.

What I love about the process of writting is the refinement of the story, it's something one doesn't do in the spoken version or in the first draft. My greatest influences are Aldous Huxley, Hermann Hesse, and Raymond Chandler, Jeffery Archer, Dick Francis, and E.B. White. I am currently writing children's novles.

My fisrt, The Many Adventures of Pengey Penguin runs 207 pages. A story for for children but, while charming, one that could be considered a difficult read for little ones. It's what used to be called a read-aloud book.I call it, "A bedtime story for the Soul."

Like Alice in Wonderland, Pengey Penguin takes the reader on a tour through lands not meant for his kind, meeting friends along the way. The child will require some help but a polished adult reader will take the same child on a magical ride from Antarctica to New York City with some of the most wonderful characters you'l ever meet.

Volume II, The Further Adventures of Pengey Penguin runs 325 pages. It is what I call, "The Best Snuggle-Time Read-Aloud book on the Planet." It's a novel in three parts in which Pengey makes the transition from living in the wild wo life with humans and the animals that live in Neew York City.  Part three reads like the best Film Noir your've ever seen.

Volume III The Amazing Adventures of Pengey Penguin, is a 367 page novel. Like Pengey II the story grows up like the readed who was revited to every word in the first volumes. It remains unpublised at this time while I am seeking an agent to take my series to the international publishing arena.

I have two more Pengey Penguin novels in the works.