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My favorite genre is creative nonfiction: creativity within the perimeters of truth.  View my Poets & Writers profile or read some samples below.

The first 2 passages focus on kindergarten: One goes back to one of my earliest teaching experiences, as a kindergarten teacher.  The other goes back to one of my earliest experiences -- as a five-year-old.

Memoir 1


Personal Essay


The next piece is a tongue-in-cheek introduction to my city: Seattle.

Step Into Seattle



Stepping back further in time: When I was five or six, my brother and I started a book company.  It was called Super Books because my brother was a mild-mannered book editor by day, but Superman by night...

A First Publishing Attempt