Life Could Be a Dream started out as a joke, a spur-of-the-moment, see-just-how-goofy-a-story-can-begin sort of nonsense. From there it became a challenge to see how long it could be kept going without becoming totally nonsensical. Then it became more and more enjoyable, until at some point it became for me a labor of love that occasionally made me cry or laugh as I wrote. Now I've proofed it at least twenty times, and it has truly become a part of me. All of the characters are based on people I have known during my almost-eighty years, but I shall name none of them. Those who are still living know who they are, and those who have gone on to "Level X" will know that they, too, are a part of this and of me, because love is eternal.