To My Flock,

I do not remember much about my youth; my brother told me he was an only child. I do remember walking five miles to school - uphill in each direction, frequently in the snow.

My parents moved around as my father was in the witness protection program. I did a fair amount of moving myself; pausing at prisons, a half-way house and a work release program.

Now with graduate degrees in theology, seminary studies and diesel mechanics I minister assiduously to my flock. Occasionally I have time here at the rectory to access the outside world via internet and continue my online creative writing course.

Your spiritual advisor,

Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

“And thus I clothe my naked villany,
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

Shakespeare’s King Richard III