What an interesting goal. I’m not sure that I’m brave enough to do it. I don’t even know that I would have 12 people to write to. I have always hated writing letters. I generally feel as though they are something I have to do rather than something I want to do, even if I want to write to the person.

I’ll have to think about this goal.

the story of meeting Walter Mosley. Of course, I really didn’t know who he was.

But we grew up in L.A. at the same time, and it might as well have been on other planets.

jkd

don’t be too impressed, okay? Lots of people walked into my bookstore over the years.

I got him to sign a book (Blue Light) and after he’d been in the store TWICE I heard him on a radio interview about a pocket museum idea of his.

THEN I go impressed.

Since then, everything I’ve learned makes me cringe when I think that I treated him just like everyone else, because i had no clue.

And of course, I haven’t seen him since!

jkd