A few years back, I was visting a friend on his farm in Saskatchewan. His living room was a stage for a folk band and he and his family treated my family to some music.

As the night conversation went on, he told me of his satisfaction as an amatuer musician, "It's my hobby and somehow it helps my farming. . . . . What's your hobby Dave?"

I had to think. I had a big website of all my whacky inventions. But for some reason I said, "I'm a writer."

"So what do you write about?"

I had to think again for there really was not one central topic in my work: "I write about things no one else wants to read."

And I'm still doing that today.