First of all, I would like to welcome you to the site.  Just the fact that you’re here truly means a lot to me.  So, thank you.

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      Let me tell you a secret. I grew up running through the wooded hillsides of my parents’ farm. I took myself to the privacy of the trees whenever I was struck with an urge to make believe. Those moments mostly consisted of talking to myself out loud. These vivid conversations took place spontaneously, almost involuntarily. I was suddenly not myself but possessed by a character. And then, as needed, any other character within the story that was pouring out of me. In the woods, I could speak freely, acting out the story without the urge to stifle myself. There has always been an undercurrent of shy embarrassment surrounding the practice for me. I was sure I would be made fun of if caught… as one is when they are seen talking to themselves. This was something my fragile inner self could not bear.

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     Now, I’ve grown older, and I am not ashamed to admit, I still run these scenes, as I call them. I don’t confine them to the woods anymore, anywhere with a modicum of privacy is fair game, though I am still careful to not be caught full on having conversations with myself. My car, my shower, or most often in my bedroom late at night. I wake up already in the middle of one, and I have to play it out before I can go back to sleep. Where they come from, I can’t answer, but this practice is where most of my stories come from.

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     I’ve been writing these scenes down for over twenty years. They are often disjoined moments. Unsophisticated, if emotional, in their raw state. Mere shadows of the depths they represent. For many years, they sat untouched and unfinished. But over the past few years, I’ve begun filling in the holes and bringing them into the light.

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     These are stories of far off worlds and those close to home. Of love and loss. The magic and the mundane. I’m thrilled to finally share them with you, and I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I’ve enjoyed creating them.