Whether you’re a writer or a reader, what you read becomes an element of the psychological sum of your parts.  Consciously or subconsciously all the words, images, and emotions associated with what you read become part of you.  They find a niche somewhere inside your mind and wait there, quietly…

I’ve said before that inspiration is where you find it.  Inspiration can even be found in adventures provided for a nearly four year old.  All you have to do is keep your senses open to the world around you. Two Fridays ago, five of us, including my granddaughter, Hannah, boarded…

He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision–he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: `The horror! The horror!’  (Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness, via Link) My wife will not read my books or stories.  She says they are too dark. …