I was born and brought up in cold New England in a loving, stable, family consisting of my mother, father, and older sister. With no angst to write about, I wrote a soon-to-be-released book about growing up in a small Vermont town in the early forties called, If You Don't Like Worms, Keep Your Mouth Shut. We moved to Connecticut where I started high school and at age 21, I married an alcoholic hemophiliac which provided the fodder for another of my books, Standing on Stone, not yet released. After the divorce, I moved to sunny southern California, went t more...