As a child I enjoyed the writing assignments we were given in class as they provided a way for me to express myself. when the class was introduced to poetry and classic poems like "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge I developed a love of words; the meaning of words and of rhymes.
As a young adult living in Norfolk Island I wrote a weekly column for one of the local newspapers. Writing a weekly column about "living and eating in harmony with the environment" was a valuable and worthwhile experience and now I was writing "copy" that more than a handful of people would be reading and hopefully learning from.
A friend remembers me telling her years ago that I wanted to write for children. I am not sure why it took me so long to start.
