Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.

It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it