My Writing Journey

My love of writing started at the tender age of eight when I found an ancient 1930s manual Underwood typewriter and clacked out my first piece of micro-fiction on whatever piece of paper I could find (probably a water bill which my mother had carelessly left lying near the typewriter).

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​I grew up in Mississippi in the long shadows cast by William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. I was also heavily influenced by P. G. Wodehouse, E.F. Benson, Dorothy Parker, and Robert Benchley (none of whom ever set foot in Mississippi that I know of).

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Though I have always loved writing, I never pursued it professionally, having gotten sidetracked by Life and other miscellaneous distractions. I started out to become a writer, but ended up as an engineering manager for a large company in Dallas, Texas (as one will).