We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.