I write whatever comes to me. It might be a story from this fiction writer's parallel universe, or it might be true, as I remember it. All things considered, I get things in print and make an occasional buck for my trouble.

That over, I raise and tend something of a Japanese garden behind out house. I also raise vegetable and grudgingly share with raccoons, bears, turkeys, and rabbits. Oh yes, and I step lively around the snakes. I'm also a proud user of the Oxford comma.

Gotta say - it's a good life.