I have been journaling since I was a teenager.  I'm attaching a picture of my daughter, Mischa, posing with my pile of journals.  I guess in some ways, I have always been a writer.  I'm not a poet or story teller.  I'm mostly an introspective observer of life.  I call myself "creative underdog" because I'm constantly on a quest to do artistic endeavors and most of my projects don't quite work out as I had envisioned.