Dear reader: This happened in 2003…
For my birthday last year, Kay my girlfriend enrolled me in a fiction-writing course at Stanford. "Maybe you could get rich by writing a book about being broke," she said. "Others have."
I went to all ten three-hour evening sessions. I did my homework and I paid attention in class. The teacher told us, "Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story." That hit me where it helps, and I was forever changed as a writer, no longer confined by an allegiance to the truth.
But the story I will tell you now is true....CONTINUE READING