Well with me, the kid that was always accused of being a dreamer, or the one with the over active imaginattion, the assignment was a breeze. 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 down, because she had said stop, but I was determined to finish. That Nun hated me, I could feel it then, and still feel it today.

But she was an honest nun and I really was a daydreamer. At the end of the day the only kid in that classroom that Sister Mary Lawrence 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 better storyteller.

Naturally, 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. Holy Mackerel! . . .  that's just part of the list.

I started writing full time about 15 years ago. At 62 years old. It's  been a long time coming and it's the 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. I am currently writing children's novles. My fisrt, The Many Adventures of Pengey Penguin It runs 207 pages and is written for children and adults alike. My just released sequel, "The Further Adventures of Pengey Penguin is currently availabe on Pengey's website. Pengey.com