I have updated my essay on This I Believe and I have began work on a new novel entitled "An Insignificant Gesture." I soon will begin posting chapters in the novel section.  

Reviewing my work presented on this page, one thought struck me as very significant. Not something I was consciously aware of, but obvious to me upon scrutiny of the material at hand. I discovered that in a significant majority of my stories, and in many places in the novels and plays, ambiguity abounds. In hindsight I can see my part of my life philosophy at work. I realized that ambiguity is uppermost in my conscience being, even to the point of doubting that conscienceness. A friend once said to me, "I don’t read fiction, because it isn’t real." Well I’ve decided that I write fiction because there isn’t any real. Ambiguity is defined as something that can be understood in more than one way. I believe that there is almost nothing I think, write, hear, speak, see, touch, or feel that doesn’t have some amount of ambiguity to it. A sentence is hard to construct without its interpretation being subject to ambiguous meaning. I now see my stories as reflecting that belief. I frequently leave the epiphany to the reader. Even for me the denouement is uncertain. Therefore, I have decided to define my writing style as ambiguist. Not a dictionary word, but I’ve seen it used in several other contexts. I am sure I am not in a class of one, it just seems no one else wants to add that formality to their writing

Last Updated October 16, 2006