The major influence on my writing comes from being born on the Lake of the Woods south of Kenora Ontario Canada. This is a large body of water with thousands of islands filling it. It was at our homestead on the lake which required either getting there by boat, an hour and a half ride or by aircraft a twenty minute flight,and it was this travelling that later developed into the love of float planes, bush flying as well as the outdoors. Fishing and flying became my main joy both a more...