Lurking

I started painting houses for my father
at the age of ten years old. He paid
me $2.00 per hour. In 1972 at age
fourteen my father gave me a pay raise,
from then on I worked part time in the
winter and full time in the summer and
I was fi rst introduced to books around
the same time by my reading teacher who asked me to
write a paper on an author. My selection was Edgar Allen
Poe. I found him to be an inspiration. His stories really
came to life and opened my eyes. My next taste of literatur...