My age will get in the way of completing the five books I’d love to write. When I started How to Make a Life, I thought it would only take a year. But it took four. At this rate, I’m going to age out of life as an author. I have enough stories, but when will memory start to blur?
The book I’m working on at present is a collection of travel stories. Each one is about an experience I had in a different culture, and shows different ways of looking at events we all experience, like a weddings, a funeral, a family or a grade of school. Over the years I’ve developed my own way of traveling – usually alone, with radar for families, and heading to less traveled destinations. Each story captures my surprise or embarrassment or humor or sadness at something I find on the other side of an ocean.