Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which is probably not a surprise) and I love the theater and art museums. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.