I was a reluctant business owner at twenty-one, the post-college era of free thought truncated by the reigns of reality placed in my grip by a tragic twist of fate. Now I write to keep a passage open to that other self who vowed he'd never be what I've become. Despite my fall from grace, several literary periodicals have published short stories and satirical poems. The late Alfred Kazin, distinguished author and literary critic, opined that my story "Her Ladies in Waiting" were "the funniest six pages of prose he read since Woody Allen's last piece in the New Yorker!"