Residing and writing in bucolic southeastern Ohio, a land of natural serenity creates a placidity allowing for the stimulation of the muse, or one might say nothing happens here, so one is not distracted from the work. After a thirty-year stint in the corporate world, I took residence in a century house undertaking to write fiction. My efforts have produced short stories and novels. My aim is to produce work that is entertaining, educational, well-written, interesting and believable. My hope is that the reader deems it so.