DAVID'S PLACE:

I am just another guy sitting in my kitchen chair trying to figure out how to become a successful author. I just read David Baldacci's autobiography on this best selling all time successful author and he made writing seem so easy. He made it sound like good writing was just like telling an interesting story to a friend. I am a 74 year old guy who is retired and disinterested in almost everything I have been doing besides talking to my family of a bunch of kids and grandkids my dog and girlfriend. Writing seems like the one way I can justify an admittedly indulged existence because of the good fortune of a well endowed family and some business success. Otherwise, I feel very empty sitting out here in Florida far away from my roots in Chicago. I never saw the point in going to school so I ended up graduating last in my class in both grade school and high school and then got kicked out of 3 colleges and inducted into the army at the height of the Vietnam war. Being scared to death o...