Inspiration for The Stranger in Me

 One inspiration bubbling inside of me for many years was the idea of creating a lasting legacy of the beauty and wonder of the peaceful Squak Valley in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. My idea was to preserve, in written word, the feeling of living in the natural paradise of Issaquah Washington in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

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