Instead of the usual children's books, I practiced reading on pulp magazines—Amazing Stories and Ranch Romances—and comic books, likeWonder Woman, Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel.
With a childhood like that, is it any wonder that I grew up wanting to create my own worlds in which the good guys—male and female—always won, where right always prevailed, and where love was the most important force in the universe?
Sidetracked by reality, I started a family, followed a couple of careers, went back to school, and ended up conducting environmental studies and writing technical reports about them more...
