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East of the sun, West of the moon...

- Fables, Myths, and Word Pictures

Why I Write:

I have very fond memories as a child spending a lot of time on the living room floor in front of the radio console listening to those wonderful adventure programs - Captain Midnight, Bobby Benson of the B-bar-B, The Whistler, The Lone Ranger, and the Saturday morning favorites, Let's Pretend and The Buster Brown Show - and of course there was The Shadow. Those were times for family, in a time when they were largely intact, sitting around the console together listening to the exciting adventures of our latter-day heroes...

There were no images on a television screen, only those that were conjured in our minds by an active imagination - images of shadowy figures in a misty rain, or storm clouds on the distant horizon seen through the plexiglass windshield of the heroine's small plane, of teddy bears gathering in the woods for a picnic, or the howl of a lone wolf under the midnight sun in the frozen north....pictures worth a thousand words, all wrought in our mind's eye by the spoken word carried into our living rooms by invisible radio waves - magical experiences to a child, and later revisited as an adult in wonder-filled memory flashbacks...

I have always had an active imagination. Being on the shy side, and at heart an introvert, I spent much of my life with a rich inner journey. Beginning in the late '80s and continuing for some 10 years, this time was especially full, and I found I was often putting pen to paper - well, actually fingers to keyboard - to set some of the images and memory traces floating in my mind to paper. I fancied them fables - latter-day fables - of the ongoing struggles between the forces of light and those of darkness....Being the author, it was always my prerogative to have the stories end with the good guys triumphing over the baddies - and, so I did...

To suspend disbelief is required to entertain a fable - it helps in reading my short stories...