The Images in My Head

 Q: What inspires you in your day-to-day life, something that influences your writing?

-from Susan

 

People. People and their quirks, their heroics, their embarrassments, their bonhomie or opaqueness, their pride, their charms, their prejudices…oh, just everything!

 

It’s not just the people I already know or have met formally. It’s the lumpy man in flip flops shuffling down Mission Street muttering to himself about an insult he wants to avenge, and the young woman waving a Starbucks coffee cup as sh...