Cathi,
I guess I'm the odd man out. I write when it strikes me. However, I do not have family to worry over. Just Trixie and she writes her stuff while I sleep.

I am a morning person, but I've found that my best articles are the ones that come from an inspired or "aha!" moment. Like the woman at McDonalds. I asked for an ice cream cone and she asked me if it was to go or eat there. Yell-O? The difference would be? Was she gonna wrap it up or put it in a sack?

So I wrote it down in my little traveling book (book that goes where I go) and later wrote about it. I'm one of those people who have to be inspired by a look, a conversation, or a scene...

and now my family stops talking when I enter a room. The whimps. JJ