would cool if i said what seth said but i don't want to offend chelsea more delicate sensibilities lifemark so let's just say that seth suggests in a profound way that i engage myself in an activity more commonly that involves two people when they are naked. the class and i hold our collective breath. the school of education is not prepared me for this, and so i've no clue about how to respond, but then mercifully set unfolds his long legs, stands and ambles voluntary out the door and up to the principals office, thereby saving my teaching career. so i remained at the school for the next 25 years left but about nine years into my tenure at the high school, without any premeditation i sit down wind and to begin to write fiction. this is during the summer of 1981, the exact same month that jared, the first of our three sons is born. gerrit, when is a toddler and a just sent out my first short story will be published, i will pick up and tossed into the air so exuberantly that his head will hit the kitchen ceiling. [laughter] but not to worry, our kitchen at the time has one of those drop ceili