My one defining life-long passion: reading books. Oh, the smell of a used bookshop! Other flames may spark then die, but books remain my borrowed eye. I will write fiction and poetry for no monetary recompense, apparently. Some other interests that may guide my choice of reading material are, in no discernable order; Art & Artists, Design & Designers, eclectic music, ghosts, the natural world, dogs and other sentient creatures, collecting, armchair traveling, ancient cultures, the bizarre things of all worlds, Tai Chi, Zen, God, & stories that take me far and away.