My goal is to write a book that I would want to read, the sort I would recommend to a friend. These stories capture the essence of people, places and experiences that inhabit and in some ways haunt my past. While the characters are no doubt influenced by people I have known, they are in no sense living persons but rather unique personalities in their own right and as real to me as the memories of people long passed. I live west of Austin, near the small town of Driftwood.