I have found the solution for my novel ‘Capturing Beauty’. I’m going to pretend everyone in my book is just sleeping. No one is dead, because most people I know can’t handle death, or, the truth, or, life. They also can’t handle being drunks, drug addicts, mentally ill, incestuous, and dysfunctional. So, in my book I am just going to talk about people’s finest qualities. If they want to appear perfect in every way. Fine!

I believe I found the perfect vehicle, or McGuffin for my story. I’m going to be this secret seeker of the Grail that drives around in a 1950 Dodge Coronet like the one I drove you-know-how around in that summer of 1970. I will pick folks up in my past and ask them where they are going, and where they have been. They have to sit up front with me, because the Sleeping Beauty Princess…