Influences

My brother, Terry, teased me today, saying he felt sorry for my husband . . . in essence, for being married to a woman who writes about him. He was refering to an article I wrote on weddings for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel(http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/90371284.html) in which Katz was the comic foil.

Obviously, my brother hasn't peeked at It Was a Cold and Stormy Night, where my profile refers to Katz as "high performance" and tosses around risky words like "libido." Terry would really hate that kind of attention. Heck, if he finds out he got mentioned in my blog, it might make him a little crazy. In the unlikely case that this happens, I'm sorry!

Writers are a product of life's experiences and the people who touch them, and Katz has brought out the funny in me. I know for a fact that without him, I'd be lost in many ways. And I know beyond a fact that without him feeding my creative juices, my writing might still be good but it wouldn't be good enough.