Extraordinary Ordinary People I

“We interrupt this life . . . “

It is inevitable and even appropriate in a series like this that the choices of people to write about will reflect relatively little in objective presentation of the world and much more my own interests in life and in people. In the end, as with all writing, readers will learn about the writer as much as they do the subjects of his writing. I’m confident that the range of my responsiveness to life is broad enough to discover and present an engaging variety of characters, including by my own frequent interest in exploring lives precisely because they are so different from my own. I couldn’t write any form of fiction if I didn’t experience that draw, to enter empathetically into the skins of others, to know something deeper of all those lives I’ll never get to live because our conditions limit us each to only one — or the three or four that some very lucky number of us manage to pull off.