My mom was a part-time school librarian. Her taste was remarkably good too. She funneled a truly eclectic selection of reading material at my sisters and I. To this day we all love to read. That's where the writing starts, doesn't it?
Bounce ahead to High School. Discovered a book, The Captain from Castille, which changed the way I looked at life. Dont' you just love books? Anyway, I went from being a jock with ideas of playing pro baseball, to exploring adventure in the wider world. And what a world it was. Hippies, civil insurrection, sexual revolution, the draft, V more...
