At 09:55 PM 9/12/01, Rachel Slansky wrote: >I am at work writing a story based on the letters of my grandparents during >WWII, and hope to someday have enough info about my ancestors further back >to do the same for them. I find that as I write about them, I am able to >understand them better, to feel what they felt, to learn more about myself >and the human race Yes, it works, doesn't it. Something comes alive and we see things we never saw before, and we can write things we never thought we would be able to. The "muse" is within all of us. Graham