I am a late bloomer, I only started to write at 81 years old, even though I was an avid reader all my life, mostly in English. German is my first language, English my second. The floodgates opened with animal's woes and joys, very dear to my heart, then turned to life in general. Basically I consider my poems, short stories and haikus snipets of all aspects of life, whether current, sci-fi or fantasy.