Last week’s blog identified three forces in Mexico that inspired me to more and hopefully better production in my writing. But motivation is not the same thing as inspiration. Today, I want to address inspiration. Writers are routinely asked where they get their ideas. I have long suspected that those most inclined to ask are the people for whom the idea of writing a novel is a foreign (and as magical) as pixy dust on faireys’ wings. I am equally in awe of anyone who can pain

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This photo shows my lovely wife Barbara and me dancing at the wedding reception for our son Caldwell and his new bride, Nessa Snyder Warley, on February 15, 2014. I've titled the photo "Last Dance" because it was. Barbara died on February 21, just six days later. Barbs was a wonderful dancer, and I am not. She was also a terrific wife to me and mother to our four children. She had gifts she brought to raising those children. For one, she possessed the ability to divert a smal