I have written a few thousand articles and once made a pretty dollar doing it. I had columns on politics, real estate (right after the bubble burst), business, history, restaurant reviews (gained 20 lbs) and folklore. Then I wrote a novel, I think I know the one thousand people who have read it, they loved it, i hear they are still passing it around. Now I am writing a column about sailing, but my boat is not yet in the water soooooo. Writing to inform and entertain is not as easy as so many think. Believe it or not deadlines help. Ah college that last night when 6 papers were due and the next day when 6 papers were handed in. Lol I still have the GWU degree and I still have that dream, 6 papers are due! So I hope to be entertaining, perhaps you may buy my book, but please send in comments. I love the noise my blackberry makes when i get those comments.