My muse likes to come out and take a dump on my head when I'm at one extreme or the other, rarely when I'm in a neutral zone. This past June I wrote an essay called "After the Whirlwind", a metaphorical look at mania......which is now in the Creative Corner forum (last seen on page 5, if anyone cares to check it out). I'm what I like to call a "semi-professional writer", because I write regularly and sometimes even for pay, but I've never hit the big time except for a couple of commentaries in the Los Angeles Times a number of years ago.