My passion is writing. I write poetry, essays, short fiction and some dramatic works. In everything I do, I enjoy contemplating how it would read on paper and what genre would best suit it. Everything else I do simply for fun because I refuse to be so mature as to forget how to have fun.

I teach English because I find teaching to be fun. Far too many English teachers during my education treated English as though it were either some form of sacred incarnation of the divine on Earth or as something so labouriously dry as to be painful. (I have had students with similar experiences.) English is fun, and I have fun finding ways to make it fun for my students. If you don’t have fun in every component of English, you’ve missed the point.

I play double bass in the Prince George Symphony Orchestra because playing double bass is fun. What other instrument is there that can drum the deafening oomps in one piece, pound the pompous pah-pahs in the next and sing the sonorous strain in the third?

I indulge myself in stargazing because it’s fun. What could be more fun than watching an episode of Star Trek when the Enterprise is orbiting a planet around a certain star and knowing precisely where the Enterprise is? Or watching Jupiter, that we all know is hundreds of times larger than Earth, become dwarfed in an "eclipse" by our own moon that we all know is a quarter the size of Earth?

I read Greek mythology because it’s fun. I study two- and three-dimensional art because it’s fun. I keep up with palaeontology because it’s fun. I act on stage before live studio audiences because it’s fun. I listen intently to music because it’s fun. Classical music is fun. Country is fun. Pop is fun. Rock is fun. Rap is fun . . . I’m having fun writing this silly biography!

And I have found that the finest song writers, composers, astronomers, palaeontologists, musicians, teachers and writers have achieved this "finest" status because they have fun doing what they do best. Ladies and Gentlemen, Life is fun!