I've lived my life in chapters, now that I think about it. My work resume includes bellhop, fishing guide, state fair pitchman, underground miner (kids, stay in school!), rock musician, rock band manager, trade and consumer show producer, corporate VP, landscape designer, business owner and writer. Always a writer. The advice is always write what you know, write what you love, and for me that was gardening. In my late 20s I started writing a 500-word gardening column for a Twin Cities weekly newspaper. Five years later I was writing for Better Homes and Gardens. I wrote five gardening books. I've lost track of how many magazines and newspapers have published my columns and articles over the years. Dozens, for sure. In 2019 I sat down to write a novel that had been sliding across my brain like a box of broken glass. It's titled "Welcome to Kamini," and it's pretty good. I'm happy with it, put it that way.