I have always loved to write, whether it be lyrics to piano pieces I compose, or those dreaded essays that were assigned though my University degrees. Perhaps the most influential person upon how I write was my thesis advisor, Dr. C. Norman, who taught me (which I am sure wasn't an easy task), that as writers we use too many words rather than too few. While I was writing my Thesis, I believed that this lack of words would be the end of me.......but, when I defended it, there were only 72 pages, which Dr. Norman said was "all informative, none superlative." While my career is in another field, I still love to write, and here I am!