Me, holding my first fantasy of being a novelist.	Five more years of novel writing, and I still can't afford a new shirt.
Off to the Pacific Northwest, August 1993.	Mt. Hood, Oregon.
Satoru Takatsuka, friend, college roommate, leukemia survivor. A respectable and loving father to Mikoto and Makato. Who would have suspected?	Melody Moser, who stood by me during that awful year of blindness and transplant: 1995 . . . because I had convinced her I was Kevin Bacon.
The real writer at work. Zonk Kemp Toner, July 20, 1986 - July 22, 2002. Survived by wife Scamper and several credit card accounts.	Like the New Yorker monthly caption contest, provide your own. I'll post the best.
Zonk making an intuitive leap. He's about to admire the koi in their pond on the other side of the wall.	The Tonerarium, early 80s. Uncle Bob and in chronological order from oldest: Shannon, Chris, Kevin, Tim and Beth.
The Tonerarium, Oct. 2004. From left: Chris, Kevin, Tim, Linda, Beth, Bob, Sean and Shannon.