As the Sun rose over the horizon, church bells all around Valletta, Malta chimed out to proclaim the advent of my birth on the 20th of November 1948 (at 01:10AM no less). Well that is how I wish it could have been. I am sure it was not as stupendous an event. Nonetheless, I am here now and by way of my writing hope to be louder than the eluded to church bells. I aspire to being published. Ideally this will happen before the bells toll to my demise. I would like to publicly thank WC and member Sherri Gibson for recognizing my work as being worthy of sponsorship to the Rising Star 2009-10 writers group.