I write a lot, and when I write, it's mostly to pay my bills. As a researcher and science educator by profession, I get paid to write, and sometimes it's painful. Not the money part, don't get me wrong, I like the money part, that's pleasure, but sometimes the work, that can be painful. And sometimes I write for the sheer joy of writing. My thoughts, observations, anything that occurs to me. I write in inks that interest and amuse me, and with pens that fascinate and entertain me. These are the pictures I take along the way, some OK, most pretty awful... but they entertain me too.