A current resident of San Diego California, I began writing at a very young age in Racine, Wisconsin and grew up later in the metropolitan area of St. Paul/Minneapolis Minnesota. My mother often scolded me for composing adventurous tales past bedtime, and frequently found me beneath a blanket with pencil, paper and flashlight, writing wondrous fiction well into the night. Back then, it was a means of escape. Those stories took me to far away places, from the chaos of a fairly large and somewhat dysfunctional f more...