Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.