When I was a child, I started writing stories (short, about kittens) and poems (bad) and drawing horses (such a cliché) and found I wanted to make better stories, explore poem forms, and really learn to draw and paint. Then I grew up and got serious.

As happens in life.

But writing and drawing kept nibbling at me, and year after year one thing led to another, and now I draw and paint in graphite, watercolor, and metal point. I also write short stories, novels and haiku.