A Writer's Biography, Author's Note: Is this beginning to turn into something... bigger?

[PHOTO NOTE: The featured pic is a 1913 picture by Oscar Grossheim of downtown Muscatine, Iowa, courtesy of the Musser Public Library's collection. Since this is about my past, I decided to add an old photo of my hometown. It sort of fits, even though I didn't move there for another 60 years or so after that was taken.]

It's a bit freaky to me that it was almost four years ago since I wrote this blog entry. At the time, I wasn't thinking too much about it. I was just thinking of the basic idea that I had to write about writing and my relationship to it over the years. In that post, I was talking about when I was a young kid first getting into the written word and starting to ponder the idea that I might be able to tell the type of stories I had been reading about.

Well, a couple of posts about the type of stuff I read as a kid turned into a few. They were coming hot and heavy for a while, but then continued, in dribs and drabs, throughout the lifespan of this blog. I finally put out a c…