Crocodile Tears and Other Not Quite True Tales is a tangle of tales of adventure and environment, inner demons and conflict, often on the verge of self-mocking.

It is full of tales of living in a tropical paradise; a meeting of four challenged first-time writers and their adventures and stories of snows, the skies, the earth and the air; a distressed person's account of having to make it through one restless night; a journal written by an anxious observer during a week of surrounding wildfire; two new colleagues sniffing each other out while trying to impress; ramblings of day to day while somebody tries to decipher the meaning of long hidden, but now found, doodles/figures on a scrap of paper; and, finally, a tale of two deeply personal and meaningful lives – life is finally catching up.

I'm sure some buttons will be pushed, but don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.