I think everyone's looking for a place in the world - not a physical location as much as an emotional one. Just a tiny bit of space to set up shop, to exist.Life hinted at where that space would be for me when I was a small boy and books picked me up and carried me away. If you came looking for me in the mid-80s you would have found me sitting on a large porch attached to a ramshackle farmhouse, reading about Narnia or the Shire, brushing away the flies, constantly saying, "Okay, mom, just one more chapter."But then, normal life, with all of its misleading promises and plastic desires, got in the way. I wandered. Geographically, I went to a hot city in Florida, an old village in England, and then back to Virginia. Emotionally, I traveled even further. Finally, after ten years of searching, I found stories again. Or maybe they found me.Now I live in that place I was always trying to find. I wake up beside my beautiful wife, Maile. I make breakfast for my four children. I spend the rest of the day capturing stories, doing what Steinbeck called the impossible: trying to explain the inexplicable. Trying to turn ideas into symbols.Thanks for visiting my tiny bit of space. I'd love to hear about yours.