The belief that my life has been extraordinary ends abruptly in my first encounter with one of my fellows. We've all had lives laced with sorrow and exaltation. I have been lucky enough to have traveled a bit more than most. In my journeys, I have been gifted with exposure to multiple cultures and wonderfully diverse points of view. In my writings I endeavor to extract the emotions from those experiences and set them to print. In doing so, I find that we are not so diverse after all, and find that we are partners in the human condition.