The stories, tales, and poems found within the covers of this book were all written to explore what potential for creativity and imagination lives inside me. I have written against the grain of cynicism, anger, rancor, and divisiveness that seems in the forefront of our human world at this time. I hope the reader will be able to latch on to the beat of what I have written and join me in what lyricist Bud Green called "a sentimental journey."