I couldn't wait to learn to read. I was in the first grade and just read my first line. It was something as simple as "See dick run," but I was so excited that I could read, I brought home, "The Wind and the Willows," believing that I could now read. I was devastated that I couldn't even read the first line. I was devastated that I couldn't read it. My mother read it to me, and it took me a few years to be able to read the whole book on my own. Maybe it wasn't the first book I read, but was the first book that I wanted to read. I grew up on a small farm in western North Dakota and went to a one room school house and the world was quiet small to me, but I realized at that time that the only way for me to find out about the world was by reading. I only stop reading now when I'm writing.

I don’t have favorite books, it totally depends on my mood. I have no compulsion to finish a book if I don’t like it. So it’s safe to say that if I finish a book it has to be a favorite, but that would mean that I have thousands of favorite books, which is probably closer to the truth that trying to pick out only five.

Everything.

Amazon Kindle. I was one of the first to buy one. At that time there were no other e-readers that was close to them. At first I bought it because most of the classics were available and you could buy the entire works of many of the classics for only a few dollars. I have the newest version of the Kindle

That's still a work in progress.

I don't use a desk. For medical reasons I write in a recliner and any notes I keep on are my laptop.

I grew up on a small farm in western North Dakota and went to a one room school house. There were twenty students in eight grades. We were very isolated from the outside world back then. My parents encouraged us to read so we could learn more about the world. We had one TV and two radio station. There were only a few kids within walking distance (under two miles) so we all had to learn to like each other because there was no one else to play with. That taught me how to compromise. Most of the time it was just my imagination and me. I had health problems so I had to learn how to keep myself occupied, and I did it by learning how to use my imagination. I had a period where my health improved and I took advantage of it by living in various placing and by doing different jobs. I was a trained as a combat medic, delivered a baby on my own, and worked in the financial markets of the world. I'm comfortable on Wall Street, working in an emergency room, and living in the slums of a third world country. I’m at ease living in the largest cities of the world or in the mountains by myself for months at a time. I can build a computer, overhaul an engine, brand and castrate cattle, and order wine in a five star restaurant. By growing up so isolated, it made me want to learn about the outside world and how use my imagination. Because of my health when I was young, I learned how to think on my own.

I had a half century of experiences before I started writing.

Natural course of events in the way the publishing business has changed.

Ask me that in a year.

To make people feel about a subject as I do.

I always work on multiply projects, depending on my mood. The one I’m most interested at the time is a science fiction story about a women who has found a way to stop the aging process and keep every healthy. It changes the lives of everyone, and not always for the best. Millions of health care workers find themselves out of work and the populations explodes, causing massive starvation. Many changes have to be made, including amending the constitution so Supreme Court Judges don’t sit on the bench for a thousand years. Even the Catholic church finds themselves with priests that don’t want to spend the next thousand years being celebrate and with people living forever, they stop going to church.

What day of the week is it? It's like what is my favorite wine or book. It all depends on my mood at the time. I refuse to be caught up in the trap that I have to have favorites. There are too many to even begin.

Since I'm stuck in a recliner or bed most of my time, I'm either writing, sleeping, or reading.

It's in my book. It's about a lonely old man going fishing and finding himself back in time to get a second chance. I made a lot of changes to it over the years as I learned how to write.

The stories tell themselves. I'm just here to write them down. I work out everything in my head during the writing process. I have no idea how a story will develop. I start by writing one paragraph and let it go from there. Sometimes that one paragraph is all there is. I find that writing an outline before I begin destroys the creative process. Most of what I write is science fiction so I do spend a lot of time reading about a topic before I get too far into the story. Although my first book is a compilation of short stories, I prefer to write novels.