Why I write

I went out to dinner recently with a business associate, and we had sushi.  I find that raw fish somehow elicits the best conversation.

Maybe it's the sake.

Anywho, at this dinner, I was asked that favorite of all questions, "what would you do if you didn't write?"

Now, it took me a moment to process this.  Did he mean what would I do if I didn't have the synaptic ability to form words into sentences that conveyed a message and display them to be read?  Uh, I don't know what I would do, but...