You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

A rock star never gets old!

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.