Living in locations ranging from Colorado to Vermont to upstate New York I was brought up in a Methodist Parsonage. The Parents were a super intelligent liberal couple who directed the lives of my older sister and me with unusual style and grace. Music, literature, travel and an outlook on life that reflected a perfect combination of realism and fancy led us to our adulthood that perhaps gave us too much freedom to wend our own ways, but we eventually learned to handle this with maturity and gratitude. Writing was a given as my father was a noted author in his fie more...