Since 1997, he has been writing about what it is like to return to Nature and a small town life after years of contending with city life. His stories get into the cultural shock and the day-to-day struggles of living on the brink of old age and literally on the brink of a cliff, and feeling the pull of gravity. He was born in Minnesota around the beginning of WWII and has lived in Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, and now Arkansas, but he has seen a lot of the world, and he knows what is quirky.