James Fox, writing from Lodi, California, is a family man with grandchildren. He is a retired steel supplier credit manager and a former volunteer canoe docent for a state park. (He was often reminded to stop calling the sign-in sheet "Burial at Sea" permit.) During his career he wrote a monthly humor column for an industry trade magazine. (Credit Managers need a laugh once in a while.) For several years he was a subcontract writer for Jay Leno's monolog, (which even his family didn't believe, as the checks came from Big Dog Prod.) Over a dozen of his short stories and several of his poems have been published in various periodicals and anthologies. Haiku Journal also published several of his compositions. His true story "Polka Dots and Sunshine Tear Drops" is the lead story in the e-book anthology, Thin Threads - Stories of Joy & Inspiration. He has one regret - the late Andy Warhol promised each of us a few minutes of fame; fortune would have been so much better.