Well, for one, a manuscript of short stories set in China during the cultural revolution. I am also reading Mondo James Dean, a collection of stories and poems about Dean. I have a story in it. People often ask me what I do. I often answer, 'teach creative writing,' but I'm not comfortable saying so because I am uncomfortable with what the phrase signifies.
Most human activities involve a degree of creativity.
I once worked in a factory drilling holes in metal rods. Creativity' takes on meaning if I think of it as an attitude, the desire to take risks, to try to do whatever you do in different and hopefully better ways. I am Delighted That You are Here. Fat Tuesday Press. RD2, Box 422, Manal Gap Road, Grantville, PA 17028.