JAY HECKMAN

Jay Heckman

The Author grew up in his childhood blanketed with shyness. Failures at venturing into social interaction kept the personal sting of embarrassment as a constant factor in deciding to keep to one’s self as a way of life. From the silence of youth, the Author watched life. He learned about people. He understood from observing why people did what they did. What made them laugh, what drove them to anger, what made them lie. The hundreds of emotions displayed by people and reasons for those actions was his training in those years. The shyness remains for the Author, but his self-training allows for the safe entry into the social world with a personal confidence of what to do and what not to do. A byproduct of insight into the learned behaviors of real people allow for the creation of fictional people who can be folded into life like scenes of storytelling. For the Author, storytelling is a way to bring awareness about the happenings of life and the personal decisions which drive life. Lessons, within the story, to provide a guide to better decisions being the key to a better life.