My background: A lifelong writer, I would often get up nerve to go into the local travel agency all by self at the tender age of seven, and tell lies! I would say I needed travel brochures from Hawaii, England, or some other place I was curious about. My excuses? "I'm doing a school report." Or- "My family is planning a vacation." Remember, this is before the internet (the 70s) and I loved reading about exotic locales.
Major influences: The challenges of disability. Both my own, and others. My memoir for example- Under The Banana Moon, is not only about caring for a dying man with ALS; it' more...
