She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

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

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.